CNC machine made prayer wheels!

Prayer wheels – new outlook for 2025 and the future      

Many years ago, a Buddhist master and a very precious teacher to all beings came to Israel to give teachings and to make as many karmic connections to as many new beings as he can.

The year was 2008 and the master was H.E. Garchen Rinpoche.

That was when we first met Rinpoche in this lifetime, and it was the moment in our lives when the thought of crafting prayer wheels came to our minds. It was a bolt of lightning and there was nothing to do about it but start our long way to prayer wheel crafting.

For sure, it was the Wheel of Great Compassion book by Dr. Lorne Ladner that took us for a ride and it was there inside that book where we realized that this is what we came to earth for. This is what we are now living for. This is the main reason for being reborn here in the human realm at this time.

Crafting prayer wheels.

It took a long time to understand all the little things we needed to understand about prayer wheel making and it was in that very same book where we learned the powerful karmic power of karma and prayer wheels. We knew that this is the real deal for us and we should put all our effort into making this happen.

Now, many years later we find ourselves at a point in time where we have never been before but we are very happy to be at!

When we were at the Garchen Buddhist Institute on June 1^st this year 2025 for a visit we learned that we (Me and Ayelet) are for now the only prayer wheel makers in the Sanga… all others stopped crafting prayer wheels for some reason… for sure we had many times over the past 16 years that we were about to give up, stop crafting prayer wheels and go back to doing what humans do on earth, but every time this thought came up, after enough time a solution to our problems would appear and we go back to crafting prayer wheels. Many many times this has happen but we were able to push through each and every obstacle and come out on the other side.

The many times we faced an obstacle that was impossible to pass through, if we just kept at it and not fold, eventually something would arrive and break the obstacle. This went on for 16 years…

At some point in time there was a Sanga member that crafted CNC (automated lathe) prayer wheels in Taiwan and they were for sale at the Garchen Buddhist Institute's shop. This went on for a few years I think until he could not make them anymore. Now, we need to fill this gap.

Although our globe sphere world peace prayer wheels are a hit and are coveted by many, it is the regular, the usual, the "normal" prayer wheel we need to find a solution for. We need to start crafting CNC prayer wheels so that we could answer the number of orders we have and for sure take the price down a bit since they will be made by a machine and not hand made one by one.

After so many years of crafting authentic prayer wheels according to tradition, and after seeing so many "regular" prayer wheels that have nothing in them or newspaper or just blobs of ink on a roll of paper, we feel confident that we can provide this world with perfectly made (machine made) prayer wheels to help H.E. Garchen Rinpoche achieve his goal of spreading prayer wheels around this world to be spun with the intention of helping all beings…

We will start our journey of finding who will craft them for us with their CNC machines.

Once this process has begun, we will come out with an email explaining all this, we will then hopefully be able to ship them all to GBI and the shop there.

Prayer wheels have now jumped one level up for us.

This is a move many have tried so hard to make us do, craft one kind of design by CNC to lower the costs and to lower the amount of time and energy spent on my lathe…. But I was stubborn.

Only after the 3000-prayer wheel mark came, only then did my mind shift to this new possibility.

So now, that is where we are.

Crafting all the orders we have and looking for the right person, the right machinist to do this for us.

Now, back to the lathe!

We love you all so much

Micha & Ayelet

Ayelet's desk with prayer wheels at different stages of becoming