Turning the scripture tube, also known as "Mana" scripture tube, turning the barrel, and six words of truth (six words of the Great Mind Mantra) related to the Tibetan Buddhist belief that the more the six words of truth, the more the expression of devotion to the Buddha, can be freed from the suffering of the cycle of reincarnation. Therefore, people in addition to oral recitation, but also the production of "Mana" tube, the "Six Character Daming Mantra" scrolls installed in the tube, with the hand shaking the turn, the Tibetan people put the scriptures in the cylinder, each turn is equivalent to chanting the scriptures once, said repeatedly reciting hundreds of times thousands of times the "Six Character Daming Mantra". The "Six Character Mantra" is recited hundreds of times over. Some also use water power, lamps and heat energy, the production of water to turn Mana tube, lamps to turn Mana tube, on behalf of the recitation of the "Six Character Mantra".
In Tibet, there are a variety of large-scale temples and temples. Such as the west wall of the Potala Palace, there are a row of drums, Tibetans to turn them clockwise with the right hand, and in the mouth muttering the six-word mantra: Buzz Mani and Ba Ba Manga Un.
To the left of the main gate of the Dazhao Monastery, there are two huge drums, which are quite heavy, and there is a tall lama in scarlet monk's robes turning them with great force. Da Zhao Temple, around the temple there is a circle of the cylinder, to come here to worship Tibetans have to walk in a clockwise direction and use their hands to move, so that they recite the six words of truth with the rotation up. These drums are full of vicissitudes of life, rich experience, purify the soul, the flavor is infinite.
Whether hand-cranked, or fixed in the temple, the structure of the drum is similar. It has a sheet of scriptures written all over it in Tibetan, because in the era of slavery, most Tibetans were illiterate, so the scriptures were put in the transept, and every turn was equivalent to chanting the scriptures once. The cylinder has a shaft that rotates and is updated every time it turns a certain number of revolutions, so that Tibetans know how many times they have recited the scriptures.
In the grand religious festivals, Tibetans gathered in the Da Zhao Temple Square, the hands of the non-stop rotation of the Mani wheel, in the sunlight, emitting a dazzling ten thousand rays of light, the scene is very spectacular.
How many centuries, this Mani wheel has always accompanied the magic of the six words of truth, in those devout believers exudes the fragrance of ghee fingers, tirelessly rotating fluttering, transferring them with the Buddha and the Bodhisattva between the wonderful communication.