In what way and for what reason do you use a Tibetan Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel?
Buddhist prayer wheels serve multiple practitioners every day on the roof of the world, continuously for hours on end. Practitioners turn the prayer wheels to amass merit, to strengthen all human beings and in order to cleanse their chakra.
According to the Grand Master Dalai Lama, “For the benefit of human beings, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas manifest in a silver leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel to cleanse all of our unfavorable chakras and blackenings, and to lead us to adjust the achievements of the path of enlightenment. “
Spinning a Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel with countless mantras within it is equivalent to revealing a large number of mantras, but it is done in one rotation. The propagation of favors is even acquired by using the prayer wheels manipulated by wind and water. Hence the wind or water that touches with the prayer wheel will be sacred by the prayer wheel and thus can purify anything it touches from the negative chakra .
It is common to observe devotees practicing their travels equipped with prayer wheels in their hands, or during their pilgrimage, they spin a silver leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel in the monasteries and Buddhist center they travel through .
At each turn of the Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel, the deity whose mantra is noted on it oozes from the wheel in entities as abundant as the mantras. In this way , if there are a hundred Manjushri mantras contained in the Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel, then a hundred exhalations of Manjushri will occur with each movement of the Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel and benefit the beings of the world.
However, it is imagined that the benefits of turning the wheel of the Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel with attentive thought are a hundred times greater than turning it with a musing mind.
Definition of a Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel?
A Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel is a sample of the Buddhist processes . This technique allowed Buddhists to amplify by thousands the number of prayers they recited .
In fact, the Buddhist Silver Leather Prayer Wheel contains replicas of precepts such as that of Avalokiteshvara the mantra om mani padme hum. The precept is written on sheets as many times as conceivable, constantly millions. The sheet is wrapped around an axle and covered with a safety cylinder .
Lately , the microfilm method has made it possible to invoke hundreds , even hundreds of thousands of prayers in the blink of an eye .
The scale of the prayer wheels oscillates from the modest hand-held wheel not to mention the large wheel bolted into the enclosure of a building , in the manner of a revolving underpinning .
Advantages of a Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel
Prayer Wheels come in several sizes: they can be small and tied to a stick a pole, and turned by hand; intermediate and built in buildings or edifices, or oversized and set in continuous motion with the help of a water mill. Despite this the small hand held silver leather Buddhist Prayer Wheels are by far the most common .
Simply touching and turning a silver leather Buddhist Prayer Wheels provides a wonderful purification and gathers an amazing consecration. It is said that the more prayers one recites , the more blessings one gains , which increases one’s possibilities of receiving greater rebirth and finally reaching nirvana .
Having or spinning the Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel is described as so effective that it is compared to millions of Buddhists praying for a lifetime.
One of the benefits of the Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel is that it personifies all the steps of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the 10 directions. In the interest of humans, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas manifest in the prayer wheel to sacralize all of our harmful chakras and obscurations, and to compel us to actualize the concretizations of the path to enlightenment.
Reciting mantras with the help of the Silver Leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel is found to bestow everything a worshipper requires.
It is impassively believed that turning the Buddhist Silver Leather Prayer Wheel with reproach and abjection will facilitate you to exclude the four bad deeds, the five deeds of immediate retribution, the eight bad views as well as the ten non-virtues.
Anyone who spins the Buddhist Silver Leather Prayer Wheel during his or her life should never again be born with deformities during his or her life, nor with disorders such as blindness, deafness, dumbness or infirmity.
Prayer Wheel Types
Prayer Wheel: Mani Wheel (a hand-held prayer wheel)
Prayer Wheel: Water Wheels (turned by flowing water)
Prayer Wheel: Fire Wheel (turned by the heat of a candle or electric light)
Prayer Wheel: Wind Wheel (a kind of prayer wheel turns by wind)
Prayer Wheel: Fixed Prayer Wheels
Prayer Wheel: Electric Dharma Wheels (driven by electric motors)
Swiveling this silver leather Buddhist Prayer Wheel and enunciating is reputed to be one of the most thoughtful and auspicious activities. Commonly built at the edge of stupas and buildings , a large number of Buddhist prayer wheels can be measured in hundreds for devotees to spin as they pass by or as they circle around monuments or stupas clockwise.
A fine example of a large number of prayer wheels in one place can be the glorious stupa of Swayambhunath, where many prayer wheels are built around the huge stupa of Swayambhunath. The precept to be implored when turning the Buddhist prayer wheels is “OM MANI PADME HUM” or “OM MANI PEME HUNG”.