prayer flag

English

Noun

prayer flag (plural prayer flags)

1. 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.

   Synonym: thangka

   • 2011 November 6, Maria Popova, “'Balloons for Bhutan': Jonathan Harris Documents Happiness”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2017, Carol A. Wilson, Stillness on Shaking Ground: A Woman's Himalayan Journey Through Love, Loss, And Letting Go‎^[2], John Hunt, →ISBN:

     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”).

Translations

colourful rectangular cloth

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經幡／经幡 (jīngfān)

• Dutch: gebedsvlag m or f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rukouslippu
• French: drapeau de prière m
• German: Gebetsfahne f, Gebetsflagge f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хийморь (mn) (xiimorʹ)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: bandeira de oração f
• Russian: моли́твенный флаг m (molítvennyj flag)
• Spanish: bandera de oración f
• Tibetan: དར་ལྕོག། (dar lcog), རླུང་རྟ (rlung rta)

See also

• wind horse