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    Om mani padme hum

    El mantra en idioma tibetano.

    "Om mani padme hum", escrito en tibetano.

    Om mani padme hum (snscrito, o mai padme h) es probablemente el mantrams famoso delbudismo, el mantra de seis slabas delbodhisattvade la compasin, Avalokiteshvara(en snscrito) o Chenrezig (en tibetano). El mantra se asocia en particular con la representacin decuatro brazos Shadakshari de Avalokiteshvara. Se dice que elDali Lama es una reencarnacin de

    Avalokiteshvara, razn por la cual el mantra es particularmente venerado por sus seguidores.

    Contenido[ocultar]

    1 Pronunciacin

    2 Transliteraciones

    3 Significado e interpretacin

    o 3.1 Definicin en el Karanda Viuja Sutra

    o 3.2 Definicin del Dalai Lama

    o 3.3 Definicin de Patrul Rinpoche

    o 3.4 Definicin de Karma Thubten

    4 Vase tambin

    5 Enlaces externos

    Pronunciacin [editar]

    Este es el sonido del mantra de la manera que lo canta un refugiado deTbet:Formato "wav" y Formato"real audio".

    Transliteraciones [editar]

    En el ingls y otros idiomas, el mantra es transliteradode varias maneras, dependiendo de la escuela

    delbudismo y los maestros individuales. Entre las posibles transliteraciones hay las siguientes:

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    snscrito): o mai padme h ingls: Om mani padme hum, om mani padme hungy sus variantes tibetano: om ma ni pe me hungo hum (pronunciacin tibetana donde se refleja la slaba "pad"

    se pronuncia [pe]).

    chino:n m n b m hng(la transliteracin china usa caracteres pararepresentar aproximadamente sonidos).

    coreano:eom mani palmi u (pronunciacin coreana) japons:on mani hatsu mei un (pronunciacin japonesa) mongol: o um maani badmi khum vietnamita: m ma ni bt ni hngo n ma ni bt m hng

    Significado e interpretacin [editar]

    Los mantras son interpretados de varias maneras por sus practicantes, o simplemente como meras

    secuencias de sonidos cuyos efectos caen fuera de una posible definicin estricta. Aunque este mantra

    en muchas ocasiones se traduce como "la joya en el loto", en otras se traducira como "Om la joya en elloto Hum."

    Un practicante podra expandir el significado del mantra, determinando por ejemplo que las seis slabas

    representan la purificacin de los seis reinos de la existencia:

    SlabaSeis

    ParamltasPurifica

    Reino

    SamsricoColores

    Smbolo de la

    Deidad

    (Desearles) Que

    nazcan en

    OmMeditacin /Dicha

    Orgullo Deva Blanco SabiduraReino Perfecto dePotala

    Ma Paciencia

    Envidia / Lujuria

    por elentretenimiento

    Asura Verde CompasinReino Perfecto de

    Potala

    Ni Disciplina Pasin / deseo Humano Amarillo

    Calidad y actividad

    del cuerpo, habla ypensamiento

    Dewachen

    Pe SabiduraEstupidez /

    prejuicioAnimal Azul Ecuanimidad

    En la presencia

    del Protector(Chenrezig)

    Me Generosidad Pobreza / deseo de Reino de los Rojo Dicha Reino Perfecto de

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    poseer Pretas Potala

    Hung Diligencia Agresin / odioReinoNaraka

    NegroCalidad deCompasin

    En la presencia

    del Trono de Loto

    (de Chenrezig)

    Definicin en el Karanda Viuja Sutra [editar]

    La primera descripcin del mantra que se conoce aparece en el Karandavyuha Sutra, un componente de

    ciertos cnones Mahayana tales como eltibetano. Sobre este sutra, el Buda Gautama comenta, "Es elmantra ms beneficioso. Yo mismo llev a cabo esta aspiracin a todos los millones de Budas y

    subsiguientemente recib esta enseanza del Buda Amitabha."ver

    Definicin del Dalai Lama [editar]

    A lo largo de los caminos de Zanskar, el viajero se encuentra frecuentemente con muros en los que est

    esculpido el mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum". Estas estructuras ptreas son una compilacin de losas

    exquisitamente esculpidas, todas con la misma inscripcin. Segn ladoctrina budista, estos murosdeben ser rodeados desde el lado izquierdo en el sentido de las agujas del reloj.

    El XIV Dali Lama escribe as sobre el mantra:

    "Es muy bueno recitar el mantra Om mani padme hum, pero mientras lo haces, debes pensar en su significado,

    porque el significado de sus seis slabas es grande y extenso... La primera, Om [...] simboliza el cuerpo, habla y

    mente impura del practicante; tambin simbolizan el cuerpo, habla y menta pura y exaltada de un Buddha[...]"

    "El camino lo indican las prximas cuatro slabas. Mani, que significa "joya", simboliza los factores del mtodo-- la intencin altruista de lograr la claridad de mente, compasin y amor.[...]"

    "Las dos slabas, padme, que significan "loto", simbolizan la sabidura[...]"

    "La pureza debe ser lograda por la unidad invisible del mtodo y la sabidura, simbolizada por la slaba final

    hum, la cual indica la indivisibilidad[...]"

    "De esa manera las seis slabas, om mani padme hum, significan que en la dependencia de la prctica de un

    camino que es la unin indivisible del mtodo y la sabidura, t puedes transformar tu cuerpo, habla y menta

    impura al cuerpo, habla y mente pura y exaltada de un Buddha[...]"

    -- S.A. El Decimocuarto Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatzo, Om Mani Padme hum

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    Definicin de Patrul Rinpoche [editar]

    El mantra Om Mani Pdme Hum es fcil de decir pero muy poderoso, porque contiene la esencia de todas lasenseanzas. Cuando dices la primera slaba Om est bendecida para ayudarte a lograr la perfeccin en laprctica de la generosidad. Ma ayuda a perfeccionar la prctica de la tica pura, y Ni ayuda a conseguir laperfeccin en la prctica de la tolerancia y paciencia. Pd, la cuarta slaba, te ayuda a lograr la perfeccin enla perseverancia. Me te ayuda a lograr la perfeccin en la prctica de la concentracin. La sexta y ltima

    slaba Hum te ayuda a lograr la perfeccin en la prctica de la sabidura.De esta manera, recitar el mantra ayuda a lograr la perfeccin en las seis prcticas, desde la generosidad hastala sabidura. El camino de las seis perfecciones es el camino seguido por todos los Buddhas de los tres tiempos.Qu puede tener ms significado que recitar elmantra y lograr las seis perfecciones?-- Patrul Rinpoche,Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones (Tesoro del Corazn de los Cultos) (ISBN

    0-87773-493-3)

    Definicin de Karma Thubten [editar]

    Karma Thubten Trinley comenta:

    "Estas son las seis slabas que evitan la reencarnacin en los seis reinos de la existencia cclica. Se traduceliteralmente a 'OM la joya en el loto HUM'. OM evita la reencarnacin en el reino de dios, MA evita la

    reencarnacin en el reino de Asura (Titn), NI evita la reencarnacin en el reino humano, PAD evita la

    reencarnacin en el reino animal, MI evita la reencarnacin en el reino de los fantasmas hambrientos, y HUMevita la reencarnacin en el reino del infierno."

    OverviewTibetan Buddhists believe that saying themantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, outloud or silently to oneself, invokes thepowerful benevolent attention andblessings of Chenrezig, the embodimentof compassion. Viewing the written formof the mantra is said to have the sameeffect -- it is often carved into stones, likethe one pictured above, and placed where

    people can see them.

    Spinning the written form of the mantra around in a Maniwheel (or

    prayer wheel) is also believed to give the same benefit as saying the

    mantra, and Maniwheels, small hand wheels and large wheels with

    millions of copies of the mantra inside, are found everywhere in the

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    lands influenced by Tibetan Buddhism.

    The Prayer Wheel: Spiritual Technology from Tibet

    It is said that all the teachings of the Buddha are contained in thismantra: Om Mani Padme Hum can not really be translated into a

    simple phrase or sentence.

    It is appropriate, though, to say a little about the mantra, so that people

    who want to use it in their meditation practice will have some sense of

    what they are doing, and people who are just curious will understand a

    little better what the mantra is and why it is so important to Tibetan

    Buddhists. We begin in the next section with some information about

    the mantra itself.

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    The Mantra Om Mani Padme HumThe Manimantra is the most widely used of all Buddhistmantras, and open to anyone who feels inspired to practice it --it does not require prior initiation by a lama (meditation master).

    The six syllables of the mantra, as it is often pronounced by Tibetans --

    Om Mani Padme Hum -- are here written in the Tibetan alphabet:

    Reading from left to right the syllables are:

    Om(ohm) Ma(mah) Ni(nee) Pad(pahd)

    Me(may)

    Hum(hum)

    The vowel in the sylable Hu (is pronounced as in the English word'book'. The final consonant in that syllable is often pronounced 'ng' as

    in 'song' -- Om Mani Padme Hung. There is one further

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    complication: The syllablePadis pronounced Pe (peh) by manyTibetans: Om Mani Peme Hung.

    Here's the sound of themantra,chanted by a Tibetan refugee:

    Play MantraWindows .wav

    Play MantraReal Audio

    download player

    The mantra originated in India; as it moved from India into Tibet, the

    pronunciation changed because some of the sounds in the Indian

    Sanskrit language were hard for Tibetans to pronounce.

    Sanskritform

    Om Mani Padma Hummantra of Avalokiteshvara

    Tibetanform

    Om Mani Peme Hungmantra of Chenrezig

    The True Sound of Truth

    An old story speaks about a similar problem. A devoted meditator,

    after years concentrating on a particular mantra, had attained enoughinsight to begin teaching. The student's humility was far from perfect,

    but the teachers at the monastery were not worried.

    A few years of successful teaching left the meditator with no thoughts

    about learning from anyone; but upon hearing about a famous hermit

    living nearby, the opportunity was too exciting to be passed up.

    The hermit lived alone on an island at the middle of a lake, so the

    meditator hired a man with a boat to row across to the island. The

    meditator was very respectful of the old hermit. As they shared sometea made with herbs the meditator asked him about his spiritual

    practice. The old man said he had no spiritual practice, except for a

    mantra which he repeated all the time to himself. The meditator was

    pleased: the hermit was using the same mantra he used himself -- but

    when the hermit spoke the mantra aloud, the meditator was horrified!

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    "What's wrong?" asked the hermit.

    "I don't know what to say. I'm afraid you've wasted your whole life!

    You are pronouncing the mantra incorrectly!"

    "Oh, Dear! That is terrible. How shouldI say it?"

    The meditator gave the correct pronunciation, and the old hermit was

    very grateful, asking to be left alone so he could get started right away.

    On the way back across the lake the meditator, now confirmed as an

    accomplished teacher, was pondering the sad fate of the hermit.

    "It's so fortunate that I came along. At least he will have a little time to

    practice correctly before he dies." Just then, the meditator noticed that

    the boatman was looking quite shocked, and turned to see the hermitstanding respectfully on the water, next to the boat.

    "Excuse me, please. I hate to bother you, but I've forgotten the correct

    pronunciation again. Would you please repeat it for me?"

    "You obviously don't need it," stammered the meditator; but the old

    man persisted in his polite request until the meditator relented and told

    him again the way he thought the mantra should be pronounced.

    The old hermit was saying the mantra very carefully, slowly, over andover, as he walked across the surface of the water back to the island.

    The Common Mani Scripts

    The mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is found written in two different

    ways in (and on) Maniwheels and on jewelry, etc.: in the ancient

    Indian Ranjana script and in Tibetan script:

    Tibetan script Ranjana script

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    The Meaning of the Mantra

    "There is not a single aspect of the eighty-four thousandsections of the Buddha's teachings which is not contained in

    Avalokiteshvara's six syllable mantra "Om Mani PadmeHum", and as such the qualities of the "mani" are praisedagain and again in the Sutras and Tantras.... Whether happyor sad, if we take the "mani" as our refuge, Chenrezig willnever forsake us, spontaneous devotion will arise in ourminds and the Great Vehicle will effortlessly be realized."

    Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche-- Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones

    People who learn about the mantra naturally want to know whatit means, and often ask for a translation into English or some

    other Western language. However, Om Mani Padme Hum can notreally be translated into a simple phrase or even a fewsentences.

    All of the Dharma is based on Buddha's discovery that suffering is

    unnecessary: Like a disease, once we really face the fact that suffering

    exists, we can look more deeply and discover it's cause; and when we

    discover that the cause is dependent on certain conditions, we can

    explore the possibility of removing those conditions.

    Buddha taught many very different methods for removing the cause ofsuffering, methods appropriate for the very different types and

    conditions and aptitudes of suffering beings. For those who had the

    capacity to understand it, he taught the most powerful method of all, a

    method based on the practice of compassion. It is known as the

    Mahayana, or Great Vehicle, because practicing it benefits all beings,

    without partiality. It is likened to a vast boat that carries all the beings

    in the universe across the sea of suffering.

    Within the Mahayana the Buddha revealed the possibility of very

    quickly benefiting all beings, including oneself, by entering directlyinto the awakened state of mind, or Buddhahood, without delay. Again,

    there are different ways of accomplishing this, but the most powerful,

    and at the same time the most accessible, is to link ones own mind with

    the mind of a Buddha.

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    In visualization practice we imagine ourselves

    to be a Buddha, in this case the Buddha of

    Compassion, Chenrezig. By replacing the

    thought of yourself as you with the thought of

    yourself as Chenrezig, you gradually reduceand eventually remove the fixation on your

    personal self, which expands your loving

    kindness and compassion, toward yourself and

    toward others, and your intelligence and

    wisdom becomes enhanced, allowing you to

    see clearly what someone really needs and to communicate with them

    clearly and accurately.

    In most religious traditions one prays to the deities of the tradition in

    the hopes of receiving their blessing, which will benefit one in someway. In the vajrayana Buddhist tradition, however, the blessing and the

    power and the superlative qualities of the enlightened beings are not

    considered as coming from an outside source, but are believed to be

    innate, to be aspects of our own true nature. Chenrezig and his love and

    compassion are within us.

    Chenrezig: The Embodiment of Compassion

    In doing the visualization practice we connect with the body and voice

    and mind of the Buddha by the three aspects of the practice. By ourposture and certain gestures we connect with the body, by reciting the

    words of the liturgy and by repeating the mantra we connect with the

    voice, and by imagining the visual form of the Buddha we connect

    with the mind.

    Om Mani Padme Hum is the mantra of Chenrezig. In the words of

    Kalu Rinpoche, "Through mantra, we no longer cling to the reality of

    the speech and sound encountered in life, but experience it as

    essentially empty. Then confusion of the speech aspect of our being is

    transformed into enlightened awareness."

    That enlightened awareness includes whatever we might need to

    understand in order to save any beings, including ourselves, from

    suffering. For that reason the entire Dharma, the entire truth about the

    nature of suffering and the many ways of removing it's causes, is said

    to be contained in these six syllables.

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    Om Mani Padme Hum

    "Buddha of great compassion, hold me fast in your

    compassion. From time without beginning, beings havewandered in samsara, Undergoing unendurable suffering.They have no other protector than you. Please bless themthat they may achieve the omniscient state of buddhahood.

    With the power of evil karma gathered from beginningless time,

    Sentient beings, through the force of anger, are born as hell beings

    and experience the suffering of heat and cold. May they all be born

    in your presence, perfect deity."

    The Meditation and Recitation of Four-Armed Chenresig

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    Glimpsing a Few More Facets of the MantraThere are many ways to understand the meaning of the mantra.Here are a few of them:

    The Transformation of Speech

    [An excerpt from The Dharma, by Kalu Rinpoche, from a chapteron The Four Dharmas of Gampopa. ]

    "The second aspect of transformation [of confusion into wisdom]

    concerns our speech. Although it may be easy to consider speech as

    intangible, that it simply appears and disappears, we actually relate to it

    as something real. It is because we become so attached to what we say

    and hear that speech has such

    power.

    Mere words, which have noultimate reality, can determine our

    happiness and suffering. We create

    pleasure and pain through our

    fundamental clinging to sound and

    speech.

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    In the Vajrayana context, we recite and meditate on mantra, which is

    enlightened sound, the speech of the [Bhodisattva of Compassion], the

    union of Sound and Emptiness. It has no intrinsic reality, but is simply

    the manifestation of pure sound, experienced simultaneously with itsEmptiness. Through mantra, we no longer cling to the reality of the

    speech and sound encountered in life, but experience it as essentially

    empty. Then confusion of the speech aspect of our being is transformed

    into enlightened awareness.

    At first, the Union of Sound and Emptiness is simply an intellectual

    concept of what our meditation should be. Through continued

    application, it becomes our actual experience. Here, as elsewhere in the

    practice, attitude is all-important, as this story about a teacher in Tibet

    illustrates. The teacher had two disciples, who both undertook toperform a hundred million recitations of the mantra of Chenrezi, OM

    MANI PADME HUNG. In the presence of their lama, they took a vow

    to do so, and went off to complete the practice.

    One of the disciples was very diligent, though his realization was

    perhaps not so profound. He set out to accomplish the practice as

    quickly as possible and recited the mantra incessantly, day and night.

    After long efforts, he completed his one hundred million recitations, in

    three years. The other disciple was extremely intelligent, though

    perhaps not as diligent, because he certainly did not launch into thepractice with the same enthusiasm. But when his friend was

    approaching the completion of his retreat, the second disciple, who had

    not recited very many mantras, went up on the top of a hill. He sat

    down there, and began to meditate that all the beings throughout the

    universe were transformed into Chenrezi. He meditated that the sound

    of the mantra was not only issuing from the mouth of each and every

    being, but that every atom in the universe was vibrating with it, and for

    a few days he recited the mantra in this state of samadhi.

    When the two disciples went to their lama to indicate they had finishedthe practice, he said, 'Oh, you've both done excellently. You were very

    diligent, and YOU were very wise. You both accomplished the one

    hundred million recitations of the mantra.' Thus, through changing our

    attitude and developing our understanding, practice becomes far more

    powerful."

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    The Powers of the Six Syllables

    The six syllables perfect the Six Paramitas of theBodhisattvas.

    Gen Rinpoche, in his commentary on the Meaning of said:

    "The mantra Om Mani Pdme Hum is easy to say yet quite powerful,

    because it contains the essence of the entire teaching. When you saythe first syllable Om it is blessed to help you achieve perfection in the

    practice of generosity, Ma helps perfect the practice of pure ethics,and Ni helps achieve perfection in the practice of tolerance and

    patience. Pd, the fourth syllable, helps to achieve perfection of

    perseverance, Me helps achieve perfection in the practice of

    concentration, and the final sixth syllable Hum helps achieve

    perfection in the practice of wisdom.

    So in this way recitation of the mantra helps achieve perfection in the

    six practices from generosity to wisdom. The path of these six

    perfections is the path walked by all the Buddhas of the three times.

    What could then be more meaningful than to say the mantra and

    accomplish the six perfections?"

    The six syllables purify the six realms of existence in suffering.

    For example, the syllable Om purifies the neurotic attachment to blissand pride, which afflict the beings in the realm of the gods.

    Purifies Samsaric Realm

    Om bliss / pride gods

    Majealousy /

    lust for entertainmentjealous gods

    Ni passion / desire human

    Pe stupidity / prejudice animal

    Mepoverty /

    possessivenesshungryghost

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    Hung aggression / hatred hell

    "Behold! The jewel in the lotus!"

    This phrase is often seen as a translation of the mantra.However, although some mantras are translatable, more or less,the Maniis not one of them; but while the phrase is incorrect asa translation, it does suggest an interesting way to think aboutthe mantra, by considering the meanings of the individual words.

    H.H. The Dalai Lama has provided just such an analysis, in a Web

    page The Meaning of Om Mani Padme Hum.

    He concludes his discussion with this synopsis: "Thus the six syllables,

    Om Mani Padme Hum, mean that in dependence on the practice which

    is in indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your

    impure body, speech and mind into the pure body, speech, and mind of

    a Buddha."

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