Blessings of the Wheel....

Tibetan Prayer Wheels are spiritual devices for delivering blessings and positive wishes to all beings. It is said that using a prayer wheel brings great blessings, creating powerful karma. The reason is simply that all of the thousands of prayers written inside the prayer wheel exponentially increase the blessings.
A short teaching by Lama Zopa, Rinpoche: "Just touching and turning a prayer wheel brings incredible purification and accumulates unbelievable merit."
This prayer wheel is located inside Yonghe Gong, a Tibetan Buddhist temple in the heart of Beijing that was first built in 1694 as the residence of Prince Yong of the Qing dynasty. This was our last stop before heading to the airport to return to the States. I'm not a practitioner of Buddhism. However, it was very interesting to see folks lighting many sticks of incense and bowing (three times each) to various Buddhist statues in the buildings of this lamasery.