Tibetan Prayer Wheel
(by way of Java)

    OM MANI PADMA HUM

The Mantra of Avalokiteshvara (The Bodhisattva of Compassion; in China Guan-yin, in Japan Kannon)

  Om Mani Padma Hum

You will be happy to know that the Dalai Lama of Tibet has decreed that electronic prayer wheels work as well as the manual variety. Both types put mantras in motion. The banner tape at the bottom of this window also works. Click the audio button to activate a short wav file of the OM mantra. A computer's hard disk spins hundreds of thousands of times per hour, sending the peaceful prayer of compassion to all directions and purifying the area. 

Another high tech application loads a miniature manual prayer wheel with microfiche of ten lakh of mantras (100,000). 

"An engineer working on plans for the 1,776-foot-high replacement for the World Trade Center in New York wants the wind turbines at the top to serve as Buddhist prayer wheels."  Now if we could write mantras on the scale of the Himalayas & arrange them around the world, like Christo's umbrella project, the planet itself would operate as a prayer wheel. 

"Yeah, but what does it mean?" you ask.
"Om!  The jewel is in the lotus, hum!"
Few who use the mantra know or are interested in the literal meaning, because verbs or processes are more primal than the traces they leave, which are nouns --  Ishvaras like Shiva, Buddha, Christ.  In the Bible the universe is spoken. Hindus know that Vac is being. "Speech is Brahman" (Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad, S. Radhakrishnan). 

Speak!
"But what should I say?"
Om Mani Padma Hum!  

Advice on Prayer Wheels