Prayer Wheel (Mani Wheel) / Artist Unknown, Tibet
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- Accession Number
- 1983/1.424
- Title
- Prayer Wheel (Mani Wheel)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet
- Artist Nationality
- Tibetan
- Medium and Support
- metal, wood, bone, and turquoise
- Object Creation Date
- mid 19th century - early 20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Maxine W. Kunstadter in memory of Sigmund Kunstadter, Class of 1922
- Style/Group/Movement
- Buddhist
- Dimensions
- 22.1 cm x 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm (8 11/16 in. x 1 3/4 in. x 1 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Physical Description
- An example of a 'mani' or prayer wheel, a common ritual object used in Tibetan Buddhism: a device made a handle (here a wooden stick, with simple incised line designs) supporting a hollow cylindrical drum on a spindle. Here the drum is elaboratedly decorated with rows of inset turquoise stones, as well as a row of Sanskit letters in bone. A small weight of bone attached to one one side of the drum with a metal chain, allows the wheel to spin with a slight rotation of the wrist.
- Subject Matter
- A mani, or prayer wheel, a common ritual object used in Tibetan Buddhism. A hand-written or printed prayer is placed inside the hollow core of the wheel drum; when a believer spins the drum from left to right (the direction the prayers are written), he or she attains the same religoius merit as when reciting the prayers aloud.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1487 x 981
- File Size
- 91 KB
- Record
- 1983/1.424
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"Prayer Wheel (Mani Wheel); Artist Unknown, Tibet." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-1.424/1983_1.424.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
