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