Spinning the wheel brings the same benefits as reading the respective texts and each cycle counts as one repetition of the prayer. As many as forty thousand prayers can be tightly rolled up in the ...

This prayer wheel comes from Tibet and reminds me of its awe inspiring landscape, people and above all its religion. The wheel, which is made of bone and wood with tiny pieces of turquise and ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. A cheerful group of Chinese tourists, all from eastern cities, are pushing against an enormous Tibetan prayer wheel.