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Prayer Wheel

Image courtesy of Bryan Spykerman

A Monk Turning a Prayer Wheel.

Ritual is the quintessential example of religious behavior. The setting sun spotlights a monk in a shaft of orange light as he turns a prayer wheel in the Labrang Monastery, China.

Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. admin. (2005, August 02). Prayer Wheel. Retrieved August 07, 2008, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/Anthropology/Anthropology_of_Religion/pict0005_jpg.htm. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License
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