.: Membership .: Cours Dates .: Newsletter .: Photo Gallery .: Location .: Accomodation & Fees .: Donations .: Volunteers .: Essential Education Italiano :: The Institute :: History Affliation   .: FPMT .:  UBI .: Other Facilities   .: Meditation Teaching .:  Conference Hall .: Chenrezing Chapel .: Library Holy Objects   .:  Stupas .:  Prayer Wheel .:  Meditation Walk Community   Holy Objects - Prayer Wheel and Tsa-tsa House Prayer Wheel Located in the main courtyard of the Institute is a large rotating prayer wheel in traditional Tibetan style, inscribed with the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM (the mantra of Chenrezig, the Buddha of compassion) and filled with 100 million rolled microfilm mantras. Next to the prayer wheel is a statue of a reclining Buddha, who seems to watch peacefully as people turn the prayer wheel, stirring the energy of its millions of mantras. Tsa-tsa House On driving up the entrance lane, passing under the gateway topped by the traditional Dharma wheel flanked by a stag and doe, a beautiful statue of Shakyamuni Buddha comes into sight. It surmounts the tsa-tsa house built in 1988 by monk Cesare di Giovanni (Thubten Tardo) after he completed the preliminary practisepractice of making 100,000 tsa-tsas. The structure is now filled with tsa-tsas made by him and other practitioners.