Talk:Prayer flag

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I think it's imporant to note here, that current Tibetan Buddhism doesn't worship "deities" as stated. The Buddha in Tibetan Buddhism is a symbol and reminder of the long-term goal -- enlightenment. The deity or god reference to the flag comes from the Bon religion only, not modern Buddhism. This is my understanding... maybe someone with a greater knowledge of this could verify the accuracy of the section on the religious meanings of the flag? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.177.214.231 (talk • contribs) 01:36, 20 June 2006

that is, shall we say, one way of putting it, and a way the Dalai Lama has put it. But a lot of the activity in Tantric Buddhism would normally be construed in Western terms as worshipping deities - I think you need a high level of Buddist theology to explain why it is not or might not be, and not all practicioners of the religion would have that. (wasn't my text btw)Johnbod 03:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Order[edit]

Can anyone verify the hanging order? At the beginning of the article it says that lung ta are hung blue, white, red, green, and yellow, left to right, but states the opposite - yellow, green, red, white, and blue, left to right - towards the end. --Bentonia School 17:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No idea personally, though it seems that it could well vary by tradition / region / etc. I just looked on Flickr for examples by photo taken all over and I noticed that sometimes the white and blue are swapped (white, blue, red, green, yellow left to right) but most seemed to match the first pattern (blue, white, red, green, yellow left to right). - Owlmonkey (talk) 16:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At footnote 1, this article states that prayer flags originated in Tibet with Bon. But at footnote 3, it says that Atisha brought the tradition from India to Tibet. Do these sources conflict about where prayer flags began? Syusha (talk) 01:05, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding is since "Blue symbolizes the sky and space, white symbolizes the air and wind, red symbolizes fire, green symbolizes water, and yellow symbolizes earth" the flag is hung with blue space at the top, going down to the earth. In this article, when hung horizontal both l to r and r to l are there. Partridgefoot (talk) 23:37, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

SVG[edit]

Can we get SVG of flags and their contents? 195.113.20.80 (talk) 15:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]