Prayerwheel Maker Blog

I wish to share something very auspicious with all of you out there who follow us over the many years we have been crafting prayer wheels under H.E. Garchen Rinpoche. Today is October 7th and three years ago we woke up to a very sad and horrible day which we will all remember till the very last breath of oxygen we will inhale in this body. But today I wish to share with you all something bright. Something of light and beauty and not just of darkness… This is a story of a very

just a sum up of what has been going on in our prayer wheel making studio for the past few weeks

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's health is improving!!! this is such good news!!!

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.

Rinpoche and us at the Garchen Buddhist Institute back in 2019 Dear Sangha A few days ago, we all got word that Rinpoche is going through a viral infection and is ill. Rinpoche is a very powerful being. he has gone through a lot of hardships in his life and has crossed them all to the other side. But this life is not forever… we all know that. We come here, we are born, we live, we get old and sick, we die. This is not news for anyone here (I assume) This moment, when a very

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

we now make machine made prayer wheels!!! this took us 18 years to arrive at but we have! you can now own one of our prayer wheels for a more affordable price than we could have offered before.

the all new world peace wind powered prayerwheel by holy land prayerwheels for the benefit of all beings!

the all new world peace wind powered prayerwheel by holy land prayerwheels for the benefit of all beings!

fixing my old lathe so it can resume prayerwheel crafting again after 13 years of daily use

A hand held prayerwheel made from local harvested wood, made in our signature spherical design to make spinning the prayerwheel easy

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche has made these rubber wrist bands with mantras on them to be worn by students and to be placed on prayerwheels

Micha Strauss inspecting a wind powered prayerwheel made to be filed up with mantras and prayers to become a world peace prayerwheel

A hand held prayerwheel made from local harvested wood, made in our signature spherical design to make spinning the prayerwheel easy

this is an article that discusses the issue of relying on AI machines to answer our questions correctly regarding all issues, specifically on spiritual questions regarding authentically made Tibetan prayer wheels

in this article you can read about the age old question: should we have crystals on top of Tibetan prayerwheels and H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's answer

where can i find real prayerwheels? right here you can! that is what we do and will continue to do! craft the best prayerwheels we can for as long as we can under the kind loving heart of Garchen Rinpoche that has been our guide and light since 2008 when we first saw him and his prayerwheel in hand