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Message: <blockquote data-quote="white lion" data-source="post: 16662231" data-attributes="member: 487908">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOṃ maṇi padme hūṃ[1] (Sanskrit: ओं मणिपद्मे हूं, IPA: [õːː məɳipəd̪meː ɦũː]) is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara (Tibetan སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་(Chenrezig), Chinese 觀音(Guanyin), Japanese 観音(かんのん, Kannon), the bodhisattva of compassion. Mani means "jewel" or "bead" and Padma means "the lotus flower", the Buddhist sacred flower.It is commonly carved onto rocks or written on paper which is inserted into prayer wheels. When an individual spins the wheel, it is said that the effect is the same as reciting the mantra as many times as it is duplicated within the wheel.Meaning[edit]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.[5] It is preceded by the oṃ syllable and followed by the hūṃ syllable, both interjections without linguistic meaning.Another suggested translation is thus: Om purifies bliss and pride (realm of the gods); Ma purifies jealousy and need for entertainment (realm of the jealous gods); Ni purifies passion and desire (human realm); Pad purifies ignorance and prejudice (animal realm); Me purifies greed and possessiveness (realm of the hungry ghosts); Hum purifies aggression and hatred (hell realm).Lopez also notes that the majority of Tibetan Buddhist texts have regarded the translation of the mantra as secondary, focusing instead on the correspondence of the six syllables of the mantra to various other groupings of six in the Buddhist tradition.[6] For example, in the Chenrezig Sadhana, Tsangsar Tulku Rinpoche expands upon the mantra's meaning, taking its six syllables to represent the purification of the six realms of existence:[7]Syllable    Six Pāramitās    Purifies    Samsaric realm    Colours    Symbol of the Deity    (Wish them) To be born inOm    Generosity    Pride / Ego    Devas    White    Wisdom    Perfect Realm of PotalaMa    Ethics    Jealousy / Lust for entertainment    Asuras    Green    Compassion    Perfect Realm of PotalaNi    Patience    Passion / desire    Humans    Yellow    Body, speech, mindquality and activity    DewachenPad    Diligence    Ignorance / prejudice    Animals    Blue    Equanimity    the presence of Protector (Chenrezig)Me    Renunciation    Greed / possessiveness    Pretas (hungry ghosts)    Red    Bliss    Perfect Realm of PotalaHum    Wisdom    Aggression / hatred    Naraka    Black    Quality of Compassion    the presence of the Lotus Throne (of Chenrezig)</blockquote>

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