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Traditional Prayer Flags
The Tibetan prayer flags in this category are screen printed with non-toxic waterproof inks by Tibetans in our Boise, Idaho studio. The prints are very detailed, clear and accurate. The cloth is high quality 100% cotton purchased directly from fabric mills in Maryland. Most of the designs below are available individually on white cloth or in sets of 5 colors.
We have been collecting, cataloging, redrawing and translating traditional Tibetan prayer flags since 1975. The greatest care is taken to insure accuracy in the text and symbols. It is our intention to provide at least one perfect prayer flag design in each of the major categories of traditional flags. To date we have flags in 8 categories out of approximately 15 categories that we’ve discovered. Locating, redrawing and editing ancient prayer flags is a long process. We have been working with Acharya Lama Dawa Chhodak for nearly 30 years on this labor of love. We are also working on English translations of all our traditional flags. So far we have completed two. The English versions of the Large Wind Horse and the Praise to the 21 Taras are nearly identical in size and images to the Tibetan versions only the text is different. All of the prayer flags in this section of the website are in Tibetan. The calligraphy was done by various Nyingma Lamas, Bhutanese monks and a Tibetan script computer program that we like. See the “English Translated Prayer Flags” section if you are interested in translated flags.
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