Buddhism in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its contrast with Christianity . tten or printed on roll within rollof paper and inscribed in cylinders, which, when madeto revolve either by educated monks or by illiteratelaymen, have the same efficacy as if they were actuallysaid or repeated. The revolutions are credited as somuch prayer-merit, or, to speak more scientifically, asso much fvayer-force, accumulated and stored up forthe benefit of the person who revolves them. The cylinder is generally made of metal, the prayerbeing engraved on the outside, as well as written onpape
Buddhism in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its contrast with Christianity . tten or printed on roll within rollof paper and inscribed in cylinders, which, when madeto revolve either by educated monks or by illiteratelaymen, have the same efficacy as if they were actuallysaid or repeated. The revolutions are credited as somuch prayer-merit, or, to speak more scientifically, asso much fvayer-force, accumulated and stored up forthe benefit of the person who revolves them. The cylinder is generally made of metal, the prayerbeing engraved on the outside, as well as written onpaper and inserted inside. It is held in the right handand whirled round, like a childs toy, by means of ahandle in a direction (with the sun). Ifmade to revolve the other way, its rotations will be setdown to the debtor rather than the creditor side of theowners account. Here is a drawing of one of severalhand-cylinders (commonly called prayer-wheels or PRAYER-WHEELS OR PRAYER-CYLINDERS. 375 prayer-mills; Tibetan, 6hos-kor or Clios-kyi or Klior-lo),obtained by me at Darjiliiig:—. Then, again, the words of the prayer are written orprinted millions and millions of times on rolls or stripsof paper, and enclosed in much larger barrel-like cyhn-ders, which are set up in temples, chapels, monasteries,corridors, passages, houses, villages, by the road side,and in every possible corner, for the convenience of themass of the people who are too ignorant to read, andtoo indolent to engage in continuous oral repetition ^ It sometimes happens that quarrels arise from rivalclaims in regard to the use of such illustration of this an amusing story is told by theFrench missionaries :— ^ Dr. Sclilagintweit mentions (p. 121) that when Baron Schillingvisited a certain convent he found the Lrimas occupied in preparing100 million copies of Ommani padme Hum to be inserted in a prayer-cylinder. He also states that the inscription relating to the founda-tion of the mona
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