Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Flags
Prayer Flags are inscribed with auspicious symbols, invocations, prayers, and mantras. Tibetan Buddhists
for centuries have planted these flags outside their homes and places of spiritual practice for the wind
to carry the...
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Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Flags
Prayer Flags are inscribed with auspicious symbols, invocations, prayers, and mantras. Tibetan Buddhists
for centuries have planted these flags outside their homes and places of spiritual practice for the wind
to carry the beneficent vibrations across the countryside.
Prayer flags are said to bring happiness, long life and prosperity to the flag planter and those in the
vicinity. Dharma prints bear traditional Buddhist symbols, protectors and enlightened beings. As the
Buddhist spiritual approach is non-theistic, the elements of Tantric iconography do not stand for
external beings, but represent aspects of enlightened mind i.e. compassion, perfect action, fearlessness,
etc. Displayed with respect, Dharma prints impart a feeling of harmony and bring to mind the precious
teachings.
The prayer flag tradition is ancient, dating back thousands of years in India and to the shamanistic Bon
tradition of pre-Buddhist Tibet. Bonpo priests used solid colored cloth fl
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