A photograph of a row of golden prayer wheels mounted along a low mud-plastered wall on a high arid plateau. The cylindrical brass wheels have embossed script and are fixed on wooden crossbeams, with colourful prayer flags visible at the left edge. Behind the wall stretch dry tan grassland and brown mountain ranges under a large sky of cumulus clouds and patches of blue. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a row of golden prayer wheels mounted along a low mud-plastered wall on a high arid plateau. The cylindrical brass wheels have embossed script and are fixed on wooden crossbeams, with colourful prayer flags visible at the left edge. Behind the wall stretch dry tan grassland and brown mountain ranges under a large sky of cumulus clouds and patches of blue. No people are visible.

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