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The wheel measured 26.285 m (86 ft 2.84 in) in height and 10.22
m (33 ft 6.36 in) in diameter, and weighed 200 tons
(440,92.45 lb).
Opening Hour: Admission Fee: CNY
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Brief Introduction
:This is a giant prayer wheel located at the top of a hill beside a temple in the "old town" of Zhongdian city, or "Shangri-La." Tibetan buddhists believe that each time a prayer moves, it floats up into heaven. Therefore, in addition to moving prayers by whispering or chanting them, Tibetans also hang them up on prayer flags that send the prayer to heaven with each gust of wind, write them down and store them inside prayer wheels that they can spin in their hands, carve them onto prayer beads that they can run through their fingers, or, in this case, inscribe them on a tower-size prayer wheel that spins by the casual effort of two dozen monks, or the full strength of five.
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