Do you know prayer wheel? When you travel in tibet, you will meet them. They are tubes made of silver or yak bones or some other materials. During your tibet travel, you may find that there are many local tibetans turning prayer wheels while murmuring some unknown words. In fact, they are just praying. However, why are they turning prayer wheels and what’s the origin of this custom? Initially, the prayer wheel was made for the convenience of the Buddhists who didn’t know words. The Buddhist scriptures were put inside the prayer wheels and the Buddhists turning them clockwise so as to symbolically signify that they have recited the scriptures. Well, this was quite a good method, right? There are bigger prayer wheels as well as the smaller ones and generally, they are all carved with “sixsyllable mantra prayer”. Better seeing by yourself than reading some still words. Why not travel to tibet and have a close look at the prayer wheel or maybe buy one for yourself during real tibet tours. There are so many mysteries to be explored in tibet and maybe it’s time for you to take the flight or the train to tibet, anyway, it is 2012 already.
Travel in tibet these five colors can be seen everywhere. Red, yellow, blue, white and green are the five favored color of the Tibetan, symbolizing the sun, the earth, the sky, cloud and water respectively in the Buddhist Scriptures.
The five elements suggested by the five colors together constitute the universe, specifically, the material base on which life depends.
Life are believed to experience endless bound of birth and death in the world composed by these five elements, unless it gets enlightened and attains Nirvana, according the Buddhism.
Do you like colorful Tibet, do you want to have a Tibet travel, just join Tibet tours, you can not only taking Qinghai Tibet Railway, visiting Potala Palace, shopping in Barkhor Street, but also experience the sprit of Tibet. Join the tours to Tibet you will not disappoint.
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