Prayerwheel Maker Blog

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche on the prayer wheel's true blessing: 'the wheel itself is enough.' The story behind our rubber mantra wrist bands — and the last ones we have.

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche spinning one of our handcrafted world peace prayer wheels during teachings at the Garchen Buddhist Institute Many people who receive a prayer wheel for the first time ask the same question — am I doing this correctly? Here is what H.E. Garchen Rinpoche himself teaches. Choose the right size Rinpoche is clear on this: "The size of the prayer wheel is ideally moderate — if it is too large, it is sometimes inconvenient to turn, and if it is too small, it is

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche teaches that every spin of a prayer wheel generates 10 billion mantras for all beings. Discover the full teaching here.

Dear friends and Sangha, Last year, H.E. Garchen Rinpoche made a request of us. He asked us to create a prayer wheel that could reach more people — machine made, to his exact specifications, at a price that more beings could afford. After 18 years of crafting prayer wheels one by one by hand, we took that request to heart. We self-imported a CNC machine directly from China — no easy feat — learned CNC machining from scratch, and programmed the machines ourselves. We tested ev

here is our new HEGR prayer wheels! they can be found on our prayerwheel shop for purchase