prayer wheel

prayer wheels

Definitions of prayer wheel
  1. noun
    a cylinder with prayers written on it; each revolution counts as uttering the prayers; used especially by Buddhists in Tibet
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    type of:
    orison, petition, prayer
    reverent petition to a deity
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