Bronze Prayer Wheel

Bronze Prayer Wheel

Prayer Wheels

A Buddhist prayer wheel, most prevalent in the Tibetan Buddhism, is a mechanical device that is used as an equivalent to a recitation of a mantra. They can be made out of metal, wood, leather, stone or coarse cotton. Each turn of the wheel by hand clockwise is considered equivalent to one oral recitation of a prayer. Prayer wheels thus are attempted to be kept in continuous motion by being attached to windmills or waterwheels. 

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Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA)

Dr. Willaim V. Puffenberger

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A cylindrical bronze prayer wheel with a piece of metal attached to the top and small pattern engravings.

11.5 in x2.75 in (29.2 cm x 7 cm)

Physical Object

Puffenberger #88

India