What is "prayer wheels"

Usage examples of "prayer wheels".

If she'd been a Buddhist, we'd all be spinning ruddy prayer wheels by now.

It would have been nice to have an atomic weapon just then, but as long as the Tibetans keep those antinuclear warfare prayer wheels turning, such thoughts must remain merely science-fictional.

Along the streams some prayer wheels whirled faster than they had ever whirled.

The disciples and those few others who had prayer wheels spun them.

It would have been nice to have an atomic weapon just then, but as long as the Tibetans keep those antinuclear warfare prayer wheels turning, such thoughts must remain merely science -- fictional.

This was their shrine and as much a part of their lives as the prayer wheels of Kathmandu.

This was their shrine and as much a part of their lives as the prayer wheels of Katmandu.

For instance, suppose those Tibetan prayer wheels turning to keep nuclear weapons from ever becoming functional—.

The prayer wheels still spin - some sort of light wood, he thinks, cylinders carved with big black eyes and cursive lettering, and white paint, red paint, yellow paint, all chipped away.