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Tibetan spinning wheels process millions of written texts

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Efficiency perfectly meets deep spiritual devotion. These cylindrical wheels contain tightly wound scrolls covered in sacred text, and spinning them once is mystically equivalent to reading every single prayer inside, saving an astronomical amount of time.

Tibetan spinning wheels process millions of written texts
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