A new prayerwheel was born!

Micha Strauss
Aug 23, 2024
2 min read

Updated: Oct 4

I wish to share something profound with y'all.

we have been crafting Tibetan prayerwheels since 2008 under H.E. Garchen Rinpoche and we have always used the tech of mantras printed on microfilm. This tech is quite old, from the late 70's till the 80's or so, then digital print arrived and this old fashioned microfilm tech kind of disappeared.

Revival of the "old" microfilm

It reappeared in the 90's when a skilled Buddhist practitioner and wood turner decided to print mantras on microfilm to enhance the power of prayerwheels which have been around for about 2600 years.

For the past 2600 years or so, prayerwheels had printed mantra on paper. First by hand then by wood block print, then digital print and finally microfilm print which uplifted the power of prayerwheels to a new height with millions and hundred of millions of mantras spinning inside of newer model prayerwheels like ours or the like you can find nowadays online.

A new mantra printing method

Now, a new form of mantra print is arriving and we are giving it our best! This new printing tech is called Nano print and it allows to print a square inch with..... wait for it..... 10 million Mani mantras! In one square inch!!!!

one of our very first nano film prayerwheels with billions of Mani mantras in it

so, here for your amazement is a new hand held prayerwheel, made from Maple hardwood in our classic prayerwheel design, filled with nano film of the Mani mantra (the only mantra available on nano print now) and it holds.... 20 billion Mani mantras!!! Holy moly!

I have spun many prayerwheels in my life being a prayerwheel maker. At least the 2923 prayerwheels we have made so far and I must share something with you all.

This prayerwheel feels different. There is a power that is being felt spinning these 20 billion Mani mantras...

I have no way of explaining this.

Since this new technology of nano mantra print is starting to emerge, I have set up a new prayerwheel button in our Tibetan prayerwheel tab. This new button will lead you to a nano film shop of prayerwheels! We are just starting to craft these, but I have a feeling that once people begin to spin these, we will be crafting more and more of these!