About Prayer Flags

For centuries Tibetans have placed prayer flags around their homes, at sacred sites, near monasteries, and on mountain passes, as an offering to the enlightened ones and as prayer for the benefit of all beings.

Each flag is hand block printed by monks, as they have been for centuries, at the site of one of the great holy places in the Himalayas. Here the ink is put onto the printing surface.
Every flag carries a central Lung Ta 'Wind Horse', symbolizing upliftedness and confidence, which is surrounded by the sacred prayers and mantras of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
The flag is pressed with a hot iron and the flags sorted into sets. The five colors represent the five elements, as well as the five wisdom qualities of enlightened mind: Vajra (blue) Water: Clarity, mirror-like wisdom Buddha (white) Space; All-encompassing space Padma (red) Fire; Discriminating awareness-wisdom Karma (green) Wind; All-encompassing action Ratna (yellow) Earth; Equanimity
The flags have their seams finished and are sewn onto cords for hanging. As these prayers are carried into the wind, the blessings of the Buddha's teachings are evoked, auspicious circumstance is created, and obstacles of all kinds are diverted.

Prayer Flags are blown in the wind high above the valley floor on the kora path around the mountain top of Ganden Buddhist Monastery, Tibet, August 2005.

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