Spinning a wheel to enlightenment
Very special and blessed Vajra Yogini prayer wheel
Kechara’s Vajrayogini Prayer Wheels
When we think of Tibetan Buddhism, we imagine ancient temples on the bleak slopes of the Himalayas, a refuge from the sufferings of the world, where the low, melodious chanting of scriptures can be heard, and where monks engage in meditative concentration on the nature of the mind and reality. Clouds of incense smoke waft over the landscape and pious pilgrims, both young and old, circumambulate the holy sites and white-washed stupas, chanting mantras and spinning hand-held prayer wheels.
Prayer wheels, a common part of Tibetan Buddhist paraphernalia, are often underrated by those new to Buddhism. Tibetans, however, believe that spinning prayer wheels (the bigger the better) is a powerful way of generating tremendous amounts of merit necessary for spiritual awakening and that installing prayer wheels in a place is an immensely effective way to transform the environment. Our prayer wheels are meticulously and specially prepared as to guarantee they produce copious amounts of merits for the pilgrim to generate the spiritual energy necessary to complete the arduous journey to enlightenment. Hand held prayer wheels are convenient, easy to use and very powerful to bless our mind and environment.
Known as khorlo (འཁོར་ལོ།) in Tibetan, prayer wheels are hollow cylindrical wheels filled with mantras associated with a particular Buddha. These are placed on a spindle traditionally made from wood, metal, stone, leather or coarse cotton, and are spun while reciting mantras. They are also sometimes generically known as Mani Wheels or mani chökhor (མ་ནི་ཆོས་འཁོར།), although this term only applies to prayer wheels filled with the OM MANI PEME HUNG mantra, associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion. These are the most commonly found types of prayer wheels. However, prayer wheels can be filled with the mantras of any deity. Common deity mantras used in prayer wheels include Lama Tsongkhapa’s Mig Tse Ma, and the mantras of Kalachakra, Vajrasattva, Dukkar and Guru Rinpoche. We have in our prayer wheel the mantra of Vajra Yogini the special deity who transports us to the special realm of Keajra, her special abode.
Prayer wheels are a helpful method to gather more mileage in our spiritual practice which can bless our environment, our pets, our loved ones and ourselves.
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Thank you Rinpoche for conceptualising the Vajrayogini prayer wheel and making it accessible to us. While we can’t do Vajrayogini practise without initiation but it is so blessed to be able have the prayer in the dharma wheel where we can connect with her every time we turn it. Appreciation to Rinpoche for creating so many ways for us to connect to so many Buddha and create merits while practising.
I really enjoyed reading this short article about Vajrayogini prayer wheels . With proper visualization doing the prayer wheel practice, we can purify tremendous amount of negative karma and obscuration, and at the same time accumulate merits for a smoother spiritual path.I would love to invite one to use in the near future.? Thank you Rinpoche and writers for sharing this interesting knowledge about prayer wheels.?????
The prayer wheels help us to purify negative karma and helps us create more merits so that we could accumulate more merits to have good rebirth
We are fortunate to be born as human beings and to have the opportunity to practice the Dharma in many ways. With proper visualization doing the prayer wheel practice, we can purify tremendous amount of negative karma and obscuration, and in the same time accumulate merits for a smoother spiritual path.