Sentences with phrase «prayer wheels»

Dramatic mountains, mesmerizing lakes, spluttering prayer flags and monks chanting mantras alongside spinning prayer wheels makes it a biker's & photographers paradise.

The little dog was trained to walk on a treadmill, which turned prayer wheels that the monks believed sent prayers to heaven.

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

The artist explains: «When I transform old Coke or beer cans found in the California desert, where they've been used for target shooting since forever, into prayer wheels, the work starts to open up to all these issues art history is always drowning in — national identity, romanticism, nature — mixed with the loss of religion, which has been replaced by an almost folkish attachment to consumer goods.»

Among the books, all of which either wear their contemporary paper jackets or are recent paper - backs, on the shelves that climb the walls, are displayed plastic reproductions of such things as a Tibetan prayer wheel, African masks, a cross or two, a grinning gargoyle, several Indian - temple loving couples, and (standing in a corner) a crosier.

The more prayer wheels you spin, the more good karma you accumulate.

We'll have more to follow soon, but for now, check out the new prayer wheel they installed in Brooklyn after the jump...

Science reporting in the quality press has become about as scientific as a buddhist prayer wheel

Of these pseudo-devotional forms, the artist explains: «When I transform old Coke or beer cans found in the California desert, where they've been used for target shooting since forever, into prayer wheels, the work starts to open up to all these issues art history is always drowning in — national identity, romanticism, nature — mixed with the loss of religion, which has been replaced by an almost folkish attachment to consumer goods.»

When his joke doesn't go over well, he follows it up by trying to take it more seriously, but so seriously it is also just as funny, as he makes a big to - do of it, holding his arms high in the air and affecting a mocking reverential tone to ask for the knife as he spins the prayer wheel — then spins it one more time to add the word, «Please.»

They also served as prayer dogs, turning the prayer wheels by means of small treadmills.

I luckily found a dry spot under an awning across the street so I could watch the tourists and locals walk clockwise around the stupa, spinning the prayer wheels as they passed.

Frayed prayer flags flutter in spectacular mountain passes and prayer wheels turn slowly with the current of clear mountain streams.

This is the land of dramatic mountain scenery, Buddhism, prayer wheels, dzongs, ancient traditions, chilies and cheese, rice terraces, and some of the most beautiful woodworking you will ever see.

While in Bhutan, you have a chance to spin hundreds of prayer wheels.

2005 — Exhibition of rare deities and objects of devotion including museum quality Buddha's, prayer wheels, and paintings at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

While painting and printmaking remain central to their approach, over the past decade FAILE has adapted its signature mass culture - driven iconography to an array of materials and techniques, from wooden boxes and window pallets to more traditional canvas, prints, sculptures, stencils, installation, and prayer wheels.

Jean Tinguely's «Prayer Wheel» remains still To honor the silence inside the Birla House.

FAILE's Temple, a highly interactive, life - size construction of ceramic, steel, mosaics and prayer wheels that re-conceives historical references from sacred structures and invites play and contemplation from the audience