Prayer Wheel
The prayer wheel is also called Mani Wheel. Buddhist used prayer wheel or Mani Wheel to spread. spiritual blessings. A prayer wheel is a cylindrical object embossed with a mantra in a thin paper roll. Om Mani Padme Hung mantras are printed on paper and some time outside the cylinder. Prayer wheel brings great blessings, creates enormous and powerful karma.
Prayer wheels were first invented because many in Tibet could not read, and this was a way to get their prayers out even though they could not read them out. It is said that for every rotation of the wheel you can chant Om Mani Padme Hung.
One of the benefits of the prayer wheel is that it embodies all the actions of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the 10 directions. To benefit sentient beings, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas manifest in the prayer wheel to purify all our negative karmas and obscurations and to cause us to actualize the realizations of the path to enlightenment. All the beings (not only the people but also the insects), in the area where the prayer wheel is built, are saved from rebirth in the lower realms; they receive a deva or human body or are born in a pure land of Buddha.
About this Ritual Item
This handheld prayer wheel made of copper, gilded with gold and embedded with coral and turquoise stone. The prayer wheel contains a paper scroll inscribed with the mantra “Om Mani Padme Hum” hundreds of times. Hand help type of prayer wheel is spin clockwise with one hand using a hula-hoop motion with the wrist and forearm. This is constructed of a cylindrical body of metal, penetrated along its axis by a metal axle mounted in the wooden handle. The cylinder, along with the mantra roll it contains, can be kept turning with a slight rotation of the wrist, thanks to a weighted cord or chain. The cord and chain are a key element to adding enough weight to make the rotation smooth and easy.
