Prayer wheels are very common in the Himalayas. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some are hand held, some are mounted along spiritual sites such as stūpas. They can be very small, or big as a telephone booth (or even bigger), made of wood or metal. A mantra, usually oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ (ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུཾ་ –…
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A Buddhist Sunday – A bit of Compassion
There are many different Buddha aspects and bodhisattvas, but none so famous as Avalokiteśvara (or Chenrezig སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ in Tibetan). He (or she – Guānyīn in Chinese Buddhism) embodies enlightened compassion. In his most popular form he appears with four arms showing that compassion has four aspects: loving kindness as an attitude towards all sentient beings;…
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