The New Prayer Wheel
Kyabje
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised Root Institute to build a "gigantic" prayer wheel. Click here to learn
more about the benefits of prayer wheels and how YOU can help make Rinpoche's wish a reality in Bodhgaya!
The construction of the prayer wheel house is complete. Two tons of printed Om mani padme hum mantras are waiting to be installed in the prayer wheel, and the outer construct of the wheel should be ready by mid-October. Approximately 32 billion mantras on microfilm will be delivered to Root Institute in October.
Please join us in fulfilling Lama Zopa Rinpoche's wish for a "gigantic” prayer wheel at Root Institute!
The prayer wheel is a manifestation of the Compassion Buddha’s holy speech. Through this practice one then achieves the holy mind, holy body and all the qualities of the Compassion Buddha. –Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Modeled after the large prayer wheel at Kopan Monastery, Root Institute’s new prayer wheel will hopefully contain 100 billion mantras of OM MANI PADME HUM. It will be housed in it’s own small temple in a prominent location, so as many people as possible will have the opportunity to turn it.
Simply touching the prayer wheel brings great purification of negative karmas and obscurations. Turning a prayer wheel containing 100 million om mani padme hum mantras accumulates the same merit as having recited 100 million om mani padme hum. In that few seconds, you perform so much powerful purification and accumulate so much merit. So, from the heart, I offer my thanks to those who engage in the prayer wheel practice and inspire others. Thank you very much. - Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
The estimated cost for building this large prayer wheel is at least US$50,000.
Please join us in this opportunity to fulfill the Guru’s holy wishes by creating this very powerful holy object — which will be the means for so many sentient beings to practice the Dharma!
All donations, big and small, are most welcome. For further information please contact director@rootinstitute.com. Thank you!
May anyone who hears, sees, touches, or talks about this be able to spread the practice of turning the Dharma wheel to numberless sentient beings, so that they will never be reborn in the three lower realms. May they be liberated from disease, spirit harms, negative karma, and obscurations, generate bodhichitta, and achieve enlightenment. May they then liberate numberless sentient beings. –Advice on the Benefits of Prayer Wheels by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Given at Land of Medicine Buddha, June 1994
