Sentence examples for a prayer wheel from inspiring English sources

I gave a prayer wheel a lazy spin and even yawned as I walked into the central chamber.

Printing began as a form of prayer, the equivalent of turning a prayer wheel or slipping a note into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, but on an industrial scale.

"Talk about French-German relations had become a prayer wheel," said Brigitte Sauzay, a Frenchwoman who commutes between Paris and Berlin as an adviser on French affairs to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

The steep trail up the mountain is punctuated by clusters of prayer flags, prayer wheels, and prayer mills, where tiny rivulets are harnessed to turn a prayer wheel and send the jewel at the heart of the lotus, Om Mani Padme Hum, downstream to the masses in India and Bangladesh.

As for the character of Mr. Graham's preaching, I found it best encapsulated in a prayer wheel distributed at his 1957 New York Crusade: When you turn a dial to questions on the outside of the wheel — "Do you hate someone?" or "Have you had personal sorrow?" — a window cites the text from the Gospels that provides an appropriate response.

As the Hamptons have become summer destinations for city people who spend weekends sailing, playing polo or maintaining an aggressive social agenda, the mid-Hudson Valley tends to attract those more at home with a yoga mat or a prayer wheel.

Twenty-year-old Lungtok and 21-year-old Tashi "set themselves on fire inside a prayer-wheel hut near Kirti Monastery in Ngaba Town", reported campaign group Free Tibet, using the Tibetan name for the town which China refers to as Aba.

The artists and engineers have repurposed the mane, a traditional prayer wheel, as a user interface for animation.

LAUREN CLAUSON, who keeps her mother's ashes in an urn on a rotating prayer wheel in her living room.

I noticed a miniature prayer wheel on the dashboard, and asked if Wang was a Buddhist.

My head whirring like a Buddhist prayer wheel, I looked at Carrie, but she too was nearly hyperventilating.