NOUN
- a cylinder with prayers written on it; each revolution counts as uttering the prayers; used especially by Buddhists in Tibet
How To Use prayer wheel In A Sentence
- Madan spins a giant prayer wheel clockwise, inside the gompa. Thank You India
- Prayer wheels are the spiritual equivalent of football rattles, though the motivation is not quite the same.
- As with his brother's songs, Nels Cline's material often contains an emotional charge, most conspicuous during introspective, acoustic numbers such as dobro / guitar duet "The Nomad's Home," "The Androgyne," and "Prayer Wheel," an older conception that may be Cline's most melodically accessible appearance, suggestive of Ralph Towner's ECM releases. Audiophile Audition Headlines
- The temple is crowded with a number of people, most of them with prayer wheels in their hands, circumambulating the sanctum.
- Dawa has planted 20 cardiocrinums in his new Nepalese garden, complete with prayer wheel, in a steep gully leading down to the burn.
- The sky overhead is an eight - spoked prayer wheel and the ground below an eight - petalled lotus.
- My roommate and I are making an “Om Mani Padme Hung” hoop to be used counterclockwise ONLY as a prayer wheel! Hooping.org | Blog | Hula Hooping Monk
- In Three Yellow Triangles, in a setting of squiggly crisscrossed lines, three triangles are pierced by lines and skirted with circles - reportedly stylized renditions of Tibetan prayer wheels.
- The principal mantra of the Buddhists, it is also found inscribed on prayer wheels.
- In the gallery's project room, the model for an unexecuted proposal for the Chapelle St. Louis de la Salpetriere in Paris demonstrated what this prayer wheel would look like restored.
