Traditional Tibetan prayer wheels and prayer flags distribute the power of sacred prayers, soothing the human heart and balancing natural forces. Volunteers have helped us create 10,000 hand-held prayer wheels in 1993 to distribute to Tibetans abroad. Prayer flags have been printed and sewn in large number since 1970 for use by monasteries. A new series of prayer flags designed by Tarthang Tulku responds especially to the imbalances of the 1990s. Flags are silk-screened onto durable b rilliant nylon fabric.
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Select flags are now available for sale to public. Contact Tibetan Aid Project. A large prayer ceremony requires a patron to provide funds for participants' meals and for offerings to enable the lamas to travel to a central location to carry out intensive prayers and meditation. Since the 1970s TNMC has regularly offered support to a ll four schools of Tibetan Buddhism in exile in order to encourage the performance of traditional ceremonies and prayers. In recent years, TNMC established the Ka-Ter Foundation to research the condition of ancient holy sites in Tibet, India, and the Hima layas important to the Nyingma tradition.