Tibetan Buddhism blends ancient Himalayan traditions with Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, emphasizing interdependence, ...

Their main project is to prepare prayer wheels to send to Tibetan refugees in India. Unlike the large electric wheels in the book store, these prayer wheels are small copper tubes that are held in ...

Spinning the wheel brings the same benefits as reading the respective texts and each cycle counts as one repetition of the prayer. As many as forty thousand prayers can be tightly rolled up in the ...

Spinning the wheel brings the same benefits as reading the respective texts and each cycle counts as one repetition of the prayer. As many as forty thousand prayers can be tightly rolled up in the ...

This Tibetan prayer wheel contains the prayer "Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower". It is owned by Captain David Wilson Fletcher author of "The Children of Kanchenjunga" which tells of his ...

A Tibetan man walks past prayer wheels at the Derge Parkhang in eastern Tibet. The printing house, founded in 1729, is one of the most important repositories of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures in the ...

Tibetan lamas and devout Buddhists staged religious dances on Monday to mark the traditional Dharma Wheel Festival and pray for peace and prosperity. The Phagmu Monastery in Lhasa's Dagze County ...