prayer flag

Definitions

A colourful rectangular cloth hung from a thread and strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes.

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Examples

“On the final night of his journey, he strung up the inflated balloons at Duchala, a sacred mountain pass⟳ at 10,000 feet, bobbing amidst Buddhist prayer flags.”

“There are two kinds of prayer flags: horizontal ones, called Lung ta (Wylie: rlung-rta, meaning “Wind Horse”) in Tibetan, and vertical ones, called Darchor (Wylie: dar-Icog, meaning “flagstaff”).”

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