Tibetan Prayer Flags

length: 165 cm

Prayer flags are inscribed with auspicious symbols, invocations, prayers, and mantras to generate compassion, health, wish fulfillment and to overcome sickness, natural disaster, and other obstacles. Typically hung in windy, mountainous areas, the prayer flags flapping in the wind generate natural positive energy, carry spiritual vibrations, and offer protection and harmony to all that is touched by the wind.

Prayer flags are 5 colorful fabric flags that are strung on strings and hung in horizontal displays or tied on vertical poles. The 5 colors represent the 5 basic elements: Earth (yellow), Water (green), Fire (red), Air (white) and Space (blue). When these elements are in balance both externally and internally, it is said to bring harmony to the surroundings and healing to the body and mind.

For centuries, Tibetan Buddhists have planted prayer flags outside their homes and places of spiritual practice for the wind to carry their beneficial vibrations across the countryside. There is perhaps no simpler way to create good merit in this troubled world of ours than to put up prayer flags for the benefit of other living beings.