Show Tibetan Prayer Wheels Are Operated by Hand Tibetan prayer wheels are operated operated operated oper oper- by hand but there is one on exhibit in a New York museum says the Washington Post equipped with a tin propeller to be spun by bythe bythe bythe the wind Each wheel contains a tightly packed roll 1011 of paper printed with thousands of repetitions of the sacred sa sacred sacred sa- sa cred sentence Om mani hum Each spin of the wheel devout devout devout de de- de- de vout believe is equivalent equivalent equivalent lent to saying as many prayers as the number of sentences on the wheel I Each Tibetan carries a prayer wheel which he spins almost con con- Each monastery has several monster prayer wheels containing hundreds of thousands of oms Horns One at for instance instance instance in in- stance contains By spinning spinning spinning spin spin- ning this wheel 20 times the pil pil- pilgrim pilgrim grim runs up an average for the year Jear of more than prayers a day And to credit himself with witha Z a prayer a minute for the whole year he needs only to spin it times |