PHOTO GALLERY

Sunday Stills : Wind

41 Comments

Hey Everyone! I hope y’all are doing wonderful!

Welcome to Terri’s Photo Challenge : Sunday Stills. Yet another day, another exciting prompt and a “perfect” WPC substitution!

This week’s theme is “WIND” and even though I am an avid photographer, I somehow couldn’t find anything worthwhile in my “vault of pictures”, until I stumbled across some “windy” photos of “Lung ta” aka the Tibetan Prayer Flags from my trip to Bir Billing.
Traditionally, these prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom and do not carry prayers to Gods, which is a common misconception. It is believed, that by hanging these flags in high places, the “Lung ta” – under the effect of “wind”, carries the blessings and mantras depicted on the flags to all beings, far and wide –  spreading good will, benevolence and compassion into all-pervading space. *ah! serenity*

iScriblr_wind
Conventionally, prayer flags come in sets of five – one in each of five colors. The five colors are arranged from left to right in a specific order – blue, white, red, green, and yellow.

iScriblr_wind
The five colors represent the five elements and the Five Pure Lights. Different elements are associated with different colors for specific traditions, purposes and “sadhana”. Blue symbolizes the sky and space, white symbolizes the air and wind, red symbolizes fire, green symbolizes water, and yellow symbolizes earth. According to Traditional Tibetan medicine, health and harmony are produced through the balance of these five elements.

So there you have it folks – My colorful, sanctified “WINDY” photos!

Sunday Stills is a weekly photography link-up co-hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt on her blog Second Wind Leisure Perspectives. Each week there is a new word prompt to inspire a shared photo (or photos). Follow this link to learn more about it, see other submissions, and to share your own. Come and join in the fun folks!

Love,

iScriblr_signature

You may also like

41 Comments

  9. The very act of stringing colorful flags across high places is cheering and vivifying. I find the color symbolism most interesting — the three primaries punctuated by no color (white) and one secondary. It was fun to try to guess the significance of the presecribed sequence before scrolling further down to read your explication. Great photos!

    Reply

    1. It’s more of a Tibetan thing – so you’ll mostly find these flags near their monasteries and praying/community centers. 🙂

      Reply

  16. Oh wow, that is cool. I thought liek you said they were prayer flags but I think finding out they are blessing flags is pretty awesome

    Reply

Leave a Reply