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PRAYER WALLS AND FLAGS.
215 is written is supposed to convey an invocation to the deity. Sometimes enormous barns are filled with these cylinders, gorgeously painted, and with the prayer repeated on them many times; and at every turn and every step in Tibet this sentence is forced upon the traveller's notice in some form or another.”
Another variety of praying ingenuity is the erection of long walls inscribed with any number of this Prayer walls and other invocations, by which travellers who and flags. walk in the proper direction gain the credit of so many
EMBLZHI OF DHARMA (THE LAW), AT
EMBLEM OF DHARMA, TEMPLE SANCHI (BUDDHIST).
OF JAGANXATH, PURI. repetitions. · Praying-flags, with prayers and symbols, extended by every wind, praying drums which frighten away evil spirits, bells which have the same function, or which call the attention of the deities or saints, armlets with sacred sentences or relics inside, and various other objects, are among the “properties" greatly used in Tibetan Buddhism, while the rosary for counting the number of repetitions of prayer is a more familiar object in Tibet than even in Roman Catholic countries.
The monks of the Tibetan monasteries meet in their
