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Tibetan prayer flags on wildfilmsindia Flag hill in the Himalaya. The red, blue, yellow, white and green Buddhist prayer flags represent elements like air, fire, water and earth. White symbolises air, red is fire. Green is water, yellow is earth, and blue is wind. They also represent directions – North, South, East, West and Center. The reason why they are put high above the roof is so that they flutter in the wind. It is said that they emit positive spiritual vibrations and that the prayers are carried by the wind like silent prayers. The horizontal ones are called Lung Dar and the vertical ones are Dar Cho. Source: Indiatimes This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection com
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