Wooden Prayer Wheel with Microfilm

The prayer wheel is designed based on the original prayer wheel of Garchen Rinpoche. Following his guidance, it is small, lightweight, and hand-held, allowing practitioners to turn it easily, maintain focus, and sustain longer periods of practice.

Each prayer wheel contains a small piece of cloth from the thousand-year-old sacred prayer wheel at Gar Gon Monastery in Tibet, offered as a precious Dharma blessing to practitioners. In addition to prayer wheels containing different mantras, special original Mani prayer wheels are also available in accordance with Garchen Rinpoche’s instructions. These contain 50 million Mani mantras and 1 million Green Tara mantras.

THE PRAYER WHEEL PROJECT

The Prayer Wheel Project embodies the aspiration to support Dharma practice by providing high-quality prayer wheels for practitioners, generating positive energy for peace and compassion, and contributing to the spiritual well-being of both practitioners and the wider community.

Under the guidance and encouragement of Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche, and with the blessings of Garchen Rinpoche, Garchen Vietnam – Drikung Arya Tara Ling (Vung Tau City) initiated the Prayer Wheel Project on October 9, 2024.

One hundred percent (100%) of the project’s profits are dedicated to supporting Dharma activities, as well as the maintenance and development of the center. In addition, a portion of the profits is allocated to the Orphan Care Project, which provides adoption support, care, medical treatment, and education for orphans in Vietnam.

Benefit of Turning the Prayer Wheel

When the prayer wheel is correctly practiced, boundless merits and blessings are achieved.

• Negative karma, karmic debts, obscurations and obstacles of the body, speech and mind are purified, and at the same time, merits of the body, speech and mind are accumulated.
• All sentient beings (not only humans but also insects and non-humans) in the area of the prayer wheel will be saved from rebirth in the lower realms; they will be blessed with the affinity to be born in the heavenly or human realms, or be reborn in the Buddha's pure land.
• When water touches the prayer wheel, it will be blessed, and when the water flows into the ocean or lake, it will carry the affinity and power to purify all aquatic species and living beings there.
• Normally, there are many mantras in the prayer wheel, and turning the prayer wheel correctly will accumulate merits similar to reciting those mantras. For example, in a prayer wheel there are 100 million mantras, each time the prayer wheel is turned one round, the benefits of reciting 100 million mantras are achieved.
• A person with authentic devotion to the Dharma treasure of the prayer wheel, when dying, simply places the prayer wheel on the pillow above the crown of the head, and his consciousness is transferred to the Pure Land
• If we can spin small ones like this continuously, then the mind becomes especially focused and undistracted. In this state of non- distraction — the Path of all the Buddhas — though one abides just a short time single- pointedly in the mind of love, compassion and emptiness…“This mind for a single instant is greater than protecting the lives of all the beings in the three realms.”