Om Mani Padme Hum - Original temple Buddhist mantra version
"Mantras
may be interpreted by practitioners in many ways, or even as mere
sequences of sound whose effects lie beyond strict meaning.
The
middle part of the mantra, maṇipadme, is often interpreted as "jewel in
the lotus," Sanskrit maṇí "jewel, gem, cintamani" and the locative of
padma "lotus", but according to Donald Lopez it is much more likely that
maṇipadme is in fact a vocative, not a locative, addressing a
bodhisattva called maṇipadma, "Jewel-Lotus"- an alternate epithet of the
bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. It is preceded by the oṃ syllable and
followed by the hūṃ syllable, both interjections without linguistic
meaning."
"Mantras
may be interpreted by practitioners in many ways, or even as mere
sequences of sound whose effects lie beyond strict meaning.
The
middle part of the mantra, maṇipadme, is often interpreted as "jewel in
the lotus," Sanskrit maṇí "jewel, gem, cintamani" and the locative of
padma "lotus", but according to Donald Lopez it is much more likely that
maṇipadme is in fact a vocative, not a locative, addressing a
bodhisattva called maṇipadma, "Jewel-Lotus"- an alternate epithet of the
bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. It is preceded by the oṃ syllable and
followed by the hūṃ syllable, both interjections without linguistic
meaning."
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