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Prayer WheelEe4.43 a-c

Tibetan prayer wheels are called mani khorlo (མ་ཎི་འཁོར་ལོ།). Silver-coloured, cylindrical metal mani khorlo covered covered in repoussage metalwork, with two bands of Sanskrit text inscribed in Lantsa script conveying iterations of **||Om mani padme hum|, the sacred six-syllable mantra for Avalokitesvara (part b); a bud-shaped finial with a flat, circular base is featured on the top (part c), while a metal chain with a polyhedron finial is attached to the side. Cylinder is mounted on dark brown wooden handle capped with metal (part a), about which it turns.

Culture
Tibetan
Material
metal, wood and lead metal ?
Made in
Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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