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Prayer Wheels

Prayer Wheel – Series 1

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.

Prayer Flags

Prayer Flags – Series 7

Bhutanese prayer flags from a set of mystical videos.

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A prayer flag is a colourful panel or rectangular cloth often found along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes.

Traditionally, prayer flags come in sets of five, one in each of five colours. The five colours represent the elements  and the Five Pure Lights.

Blue (symbolizing sky/space)

White (symbolizing air/wind)

Red (symbolizing fire)

Green (symbolizing water)

Yellow (symbolizing earth)

Traditionally, prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom. The flags do not carry prayers to ‘gods,’ a common misconception; rather the prayers will be blown by the wind to spread the good will and compassion into all pervading space to bring benefit to all.

Birds

Birds of Prey – Series 1

A set of video images of beautiful birds from Bhutan.

The avifauna of Bhutan includes a total of 680 species of which 22 species are globally threatened.

More than 40 of these species are birds of prey.

Jerdon’s Baza Aviceda jerdoni

Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes

Oriental Honey-buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus

Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus

Black Kite Milvus migrans

Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus

Pallas’s Fish-Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus

Lesser Fish-Eagle Ichthyophaga humilis

Gray-headed Fish-Eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus

Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus

Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus

White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis

Indian Vulture Gyps indicus

Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris

Himalayan Griffon Gyps himalayensis

Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus

Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus

Crested Serpent-Eagle Spilornis cheela

Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus

Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus

Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos

Montagu’s Harrier Circus pygargus

Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus

Shikra Accipiter badius

Besra Accipiter virgatus

Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis

White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

Eurasian Buzzard Buteo buteo

Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus

Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius

Black Eagle Ictinaetus malayensis

Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga

Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis

Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos

Bonelli’s Eagle Aquila fasciatus

Booted Eagle Aquila pennatus

Rufous-bellied Eagle Aquila kienerii

Changeable Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus cirrhatus

Flores Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus floris

Mountain Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus nipalensis