Bhutanese prayer wheels from a set of mystical videos.
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The earliest recorded prayer wheels was written by a Chinese pilgrim around 400 CE.The prayer wheel is a cylindrical ‘wheel’ on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone,leather, or even coarse cotton. Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Sanskrit externally on the wheel. The six symbols roughly translate to:
Om Generosity
Ma Ethics
Ni Patience
Pad Diligence
Me Renunciation
Hum Wisdom
It is said that prayer wheels are used to purify negativities such as bad karma and to accumulate wisdom and merit or good karma. The idea of spinning mantras comes from practices where the practitioner visualizes mantras revolving around the nadis and especially around the meridian chakras such as the heart and crown.