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A Tibetan Tradition
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TT Tibetan Buddhists make prayer flags or Lung Ta to display messages of peace, goodwill and love. These prayer flags are often done on colourful, rectangular fabric and are strung up and displayed outside. They are traditionally made in primary colours and in sets of five to represent the different elements.
blue represents the sky/space white represents the air/wind red represents fire green represents water yellow represents the earth
TT Follow the procedure below to make your own Tibetan prayer flag. Materials
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• Pieces of© rectangular fabric, 15 xa 10t centimetres Read yE dcentimetres Publ i c i ons in five different colours (red, blue, yellow, white and green); f oor rmarkers; r evi ew pur posesonl y• • Fabric• paint • Safety pins; • Thick string for hanging.
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What to do
1. Look at examples of prayer flags online 4www.kunpenhope.com/ prayer-flags.html.
. 2. Decide ont your to use. e design and what traditional elements o c . che 3. Use a separate piece of paper to make a draftr ofe your design and o message to spread t r write your blessing or prayer. Think ofr as goodwill su pe
to the world. They are often blessings about long life, wisdom, good fortune and compassion.
4. Create your flag using the fabric markers. 5. Pin it to the string and hang.
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Tibetan people believe that when the wind blows, the prayer flag blessing is spread around the world. Organising idea: OI.1
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