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PRAYING WHEEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 263 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRAYING See also:

WHEEL , a See also:mechanical apparatus used by the Lamaist Buddhists in See also:Tibet and elsewhere for offering prayers. Strips of See also:paper bearing a manifold repetition of the words " The See also:Jewel in the See also:Lotus, See also:Amen," are wrapped See also:round cylinders of all sizes—from See also:hand-See also:mills to See also:wind- or See also:water-mills. As the wheel revolves these uncoil and the See also:prayer is considered to be offered.

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