Nano film mantras and the future of prayerwheels

I wanted to share with you all some thoughts i had on the nano mantra film. It seems that since we offered this new amazing tech to the world to be placed inside of prayerwheels we have received many orders of prayerwheels with this new tech.

Back in the year 2019 me and Ayelet were visiting the US to attend a Vajrakilaya Drubchen at the Garchen Buddhist Institute. Those 10 days were one of the most special days of our lives for sure! What an intense event that was! So much power... so much energy... amazing and loving people... it felt like being home :-)

When the event was over we decided that we will take a road trip since we are already in the US and this is a great opportunity for Ayelet to see some amazing nature (and me too of course, but Ayelet is always first 🙂) So that is what we did. We rented a car and took off to see America.

We had a blast and for the dessert of this trip we decided to take a drive up to Portland OR to see where our microfilm is made!

Meeting Jeff in Portland, OR

Micha & Jeff at the Buddhist microfilm company

We met with Jeff, the owner of the Buddhist Microfilm company and got to spend a few hours with him checking out his amazing place. We talked a lot about his machines (me being in love with anything mechanical and old) and how he is always afraid that one day they will break and there will be no replacement parts for them (even though now there are 3D printers and any part can be made).

But that one conversation put a splinter in my mind (and Ayelet too) that one day, we will not have this material to craft our prayerwheels with! That would be the end of our prayerwheel journey! What a loss! We talked about it in the car as we were driving away and felt a pinch in our hearts... but we are Buddhist and we practice impermanence so we are aware of that... that one day, this will all end.

We can go back to paper and keep on crafting prayerwheels! We had no idea how customers would react to old technology brought back to prayerwheels, but we felt that if microfilm ended one day, there will be a worldwide "going back to paper mantras" anyway... so that helped sooth our hearts.

The microfilm machine

We talked about what we will do when that day comes, we thought about going back to printed paper mantras like the days of old, back to how prayerwheels were made for so many years before "technology" was incorporated into prayerwheels in the form of microfilm... and that thought soothed our minds and hearts.

Then, one bright day, as I was talking to Dr. Lorne Ladner about large prayerwheels, he introduced me to the new concept of nano mantra film!

"What is that?!" I said with big eyes!

"It is the new printing tech for mantras" he replied.

"How and where can I put my hands on that new tech?!" I said eagerly.

Lorne then gave me the name of the company that produces this new nano mantra film and I contacted them. They are the nicest people!

Their product is expensive because of the process being made, but the results are mind-blowing for whomever is interested in putting billions of mantras into one small prayerwheel!

This just blow my mind! No more thinking of going back to paper mantras when microfilm is gone! There is new prayerwheel tech! Ha!

It is true that for now this is hard to come by and only one mantra is printed in this new technology, but this is no laughing matter!

As H.E. Garchen Rinpoche told me once in one of our many conversations: "Mani mantra is king."

So, for now, there is only the Mani mantra being printed in this new tech, but we have new prayerwheels! New tech for prayerwheels!

This is SO amazing!!! Prayerwheels are making a leap forward into the future...

Who would have seen this coming?!

Surely not me ;-)

I love it that something as old as prayerwheels is now getting a new facelift and moving into the future... becoming more and more powerful!

I am sure that if the Buddha himself or any of the great masters of old would rejoice in knowing the evolution of prayerwheels ;-)

May there be many prayerwheels made in this new amazing tech! And for prayerwheels to keep on moving forward in time and continue to benefit all beings!

May it be so,

Micha