How to pronouce om mani padme hum correctly?
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Anyone knows how to pronouce this mantra.Many of my buddhist friends have no idea how to pronouce this mantra.
This mantra is in which language?
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Anyone got the sound audio file of the mantra?
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Originally posted by Positron:
Anyone got the sound audio file of the mantra?
Please refer to the links below :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4noQ0MD1_8s&a=GxdCwVVULXc08C14OC66ItqaLf4P3Jc0&playnext=1
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Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:
Please refer to the links below :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4noQ0MD1_8s&a=GxdCwVVULXc08C14OC66ItqaLf4P3Jc0&playnext=1
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Is there a difference between chanting this and Nan wu ah mi tuo fo?
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sanskrirt
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Originally posted by gunner77:
sanskrirt
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Originally posted by Positron:
Is there a difference between chanting this and Nan wu ah mi tuo fo?
Yes. Chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo is for people like me who wish to be reborn in Amitabha's (ah mi tuo fo) Pureland. After chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo , it is better to follow by a vow that you wish to be born in Pureland. I'm very sure of this.I don't think by chanting om mani padme hum will enable one to be born in Pureland. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong. Chanting om mani padme hum is more for blessing and wish fulfilling. Correct me if I'm not wrong.
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Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:
Yes. Chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo is for people like me who wish to be reborn in Amitabha's (ah mi tuo fo) Pureland. After chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo , it is better to follow by a vow that you wish to be born in Pureland. I'm very sure of this.I don't think by chanting om mani padme hum will enable one to be born in Pureland. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong. Chanting om mani padme hum is more for blessing and wish fulfilling. Correct me if I'm not wrong.
Om mani padme hum means wad?Why do some buddhist chant this mantra?For blessings and wish fulfiling?
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Originally posted by Positron:
Om mani padme hum means wad?Why do some buddhist chant this mantra?For blessings and wish fulfiling?
Please refer to the link below which explains the meaning. One of the benefits of chanting this mantra is to purify negative karma. This is one of the Goddess of Mercy's mantra.
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Originally posted by Positron:
Is there a difference between chanting this and Nan wu ah mi tuo fo?
huh? i thought it is NA MO A MI TUO FO?
The æ— read as "MO" right?
Someone please confirm...
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Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:
Yes. Chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo is for people like me who wish to be reborn in Amitabha's (ah mi tuo fo) Pureland. After chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo , it is better to follow by a vow that you wish to be born in Pureland. I'm very sure of this.I don't think by chanting om mani padme hum will enable one to be born in Pureland. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong. Chanting om mani padme hum is more for blessing and wish fulfilling. Correct me if I'm not wrong.
I chant om mani padme hum for good health, safety and have qui ren helps...
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Originally posted by Positron:
Om mani padme hum means wad?Why do some buddhist chant this mantra?For blessings and wish fulfiling?
Hi Positron,
This mantra is the mantra of Chenrezig/Guan Yin. I'd post up a article by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche on this mantra later. It purifies your bad karma, creates good energy in you, removes the obscurations that block your buddha-nature so that you can realise emptiness, it creates merit and great blessings.... many people pray to Guan Yin for help in urgent situations like accidents, disasters, great pain, sickness etc. And this mantra is the main essential mantra of Guan Yin. Very very powerful for healing, and wishfulfilling definitely. At the end of your life, you will not fall into the lower realms and if you are diligent, Guan Yin will guide you to Amitabha pureland.
Many Buddhists chant this mantra, because it is both short and simple and yet full of blessings... there are many stories of people who received spiritual accomplishments from a full faith and practice of this mantra.
Make a target to chant at least 700,000 in your life. The mantra blessings get stronger as you chant more...
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Benefits and Qualities of the Six Syllables Mantra
Spoken by Penor Rinpoche
Presently, we are in the dharma-ending age, where people have limited wisdom, faith and diligence. Thus, it is necessary to persevere diligently in the practice of dharma. A practice that fulfills this necessity is reciting the six-syllables mani mantra while viewing through one’s devotion that the guru is not different from Chenrezig. The six syllables mani mantra is very easy to recite and encompasses the essential meaning of all the Buddha’s teachings. It is the heart-essence of Chenrezig (or Avalokiteshvara) and brings infinite blessings. If one takes it as one’s primary practice, then all humans, celestial beings, and even the harmful ghosts or gods will bless you benevolently and you will have a long life without any sickness or calamities. In the next life, you will be reborn in Potala mountain or Amitabha’s pureland, or at least, you will take rebirth in a land where the Buddha-dharma is flourishing. This is because Chenrezig’s heart mantra is imbued with the limitless blessings, loving kindness and compassion of all the Buddhas.
In a sutra, it says, “If one recites this mantra, innumerable Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Gods, Dragons and beings of the eight classifications will congregate where one dwells and there will be endless dharma-doors of samadhi. Seven generations of the family of one who recites (this mantra) will be liberated. The worms (or sentient beings) in one’s stomach will attain levels on the Bodhisattva path. Such a person (who recites the mantra) will perfect the paramitas daily, have unimpeded eloquence and purify his wisdom aggregate. Whenever his breath touches others’ bodies, it would cause that person to attain levels on the Bodhisattva path. If, for instance, all beings below the fourth heaven realm attained to the seventh bhumi Bodhisattva position, all their combined merit would be the same as reciting the six syllables mani mantra once. If one used gold and jewels to build Buddha statues as numerous as dust, it would not be as meritorious as writing one syllable of the six syllables mani mantra. If one obtained the six syllables mani mantra, one will not be contaminated by the greed, hatred and ignorance. If one wore this mantra on the body, one will likewise not be contaminated by the sickness of greed, hatred and ignorance. Anyone who wears, touches, sees (the mantra), all such sentient beings will attain the levels on the Bodhisattva path and be forever set apart from the sufferings such as birth, old age, sickness and death.”
The six syllables mani mantra of Chenrezig, Om Mani Padme Hung, is the manifestation of all the Buddhas’ compassion in the form of sound. Within it, the 84,000 dharma-doors of the Buddha are encapsulated. Although there are many different kinds of mantras, such as awareness-mantra, dharanis, secret mantras, but none of them is more sublime than the six syllables mani mantra. The vast benefits of reciting this mantra (which is usually just called ‘mani’) has been mentioned frequently in the Buddha’s sutras and tantras. It is said that just reciting this mantra once is equivalent to reciting all the 12 categories of the Buddha’s teachings. Reciting the six syllables mani mantra can perfect the six bodhisattva paramitas and firmly seal off all possibilities of taking rebirth in the six realms. This is a simple practice, easy to understand. All the people can practice its recitation and it encompasses the essence of the Buddhadharma. If you are able to regard the mani mantra as your refuge in times of happiness or suffering, then Chenrezig will always be with you. You will become more and more devoted without even trying to. The realisation of the mahayana path will naturally arise in your mindstream.
According to the records in the Jewel-Chest sutra, reciting a hundred-million times of this mantra will cause all the organisms on one’s body to receive Chenrezig’s blessings and after one’s death, the smoke from the cremation of one’s corpse can protect anyone who breathes it from rebirth in the three lower realms.
Even one syllable from this mantra, whether it be ‘Om’, ‘Ma’ or ‘Ni’ has inconceivable power. It can bless and cause sentient beings to be liberated. It is said that the Buddha, who has such extraordinary power far exceeding those of any sentient being, is able to tell accurately how many raindrops there are in a rainstorm lasting 12 years but yet, even he is unable to completely express the merit of saying the mani mantra once. If the Buddha began to express its merit, even if all the world’s forests and trees were made into paper, it would not be sufficient for writing down even the smallest part of the merit of the mantra.
There is nothing in this world that can really frighten the god of death and make him retreat, but the warm radiance of Chenrezig’s compassion can remove all fear that anyone felt at the point of death. This is what is called, “the refuge which never deceives”.
The six syllables mani mantra is Chenrezig’s heart-essence, it is the bodhisattvas’ paramitas in the form of mantra. If you recite this mantra, all the six paramitas will automatically arise and action-bodhichitta will spontaneously be accomplished.
Mantra is one essential component of the Vajrayana path but not one mantra is better than the mani mantra. It encompasses all the functions of all mantras and also embodies all the other mantras’ blessings and power. Even the great Karma Chakme and other well-learned noble beings could not find any mantra in the teachings that was of more benefit, more quintessential and simple to practise than the mani, and thus utilised the mani mantra as their main practice. Even hearing the mani mantra can liberate one from samsara. Just as Chenrezig has said, anyone who practises this mani mantra will perfect all the six bodhisattva paramitas and cleanse all their obscurations and karma.
In order to bless sentient beings, Chenrezig endowed the mani mantra with the same power as his very own body, this is the ‘dedication of unborn emptiness’. Writing the six syllables mani mantra will lead all beings who see it to be liberated. Reciting the six syllables mani mantra will lead all beings who hear it to be liberated. If one thought of the mantra, then one will be liberated by recalling. By wearing it on one’s body, there will be liberation by contact. If you are accustomed to regarding all sounds as the mani mantra, then all the fearful sounds in the bardo will not cause you any trepidation.
In this age of the five degenerations, the compassionate Chenrezig’s blessings is exceptionally strong. But, just as Guru Rinpoche has predicted, “in the future, there will be some beings with insufficient merit who will not treasure the six syllables mani mantra.” Chenrezig’s emanation, the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo also said, “in the future, there will be some beings who will discriminate the dharma due to their own self-clinging, they will abandon all positive actions and belittle the six syllables mani mantra saying that it is a practice for old people or children. These people have been led by the demonic obstacles into the deviant paths. Their future life would definitely be in the hells. Thus you should not give rise to any doubt about compassionate Chenrezig’s dharma practice but should instead practice it diligently, because this practice is the easiest to accomplish and there is no other practice that bestows greater blessings that this.”
The six syllables mani mantra has worldly benefits such as removing all sickness, pain, negative karma, obscurations and demonic obstacles, increasing one’s merit and prosperity. Its ultimate benefit is to end samsara and bring one to the state of perfect unsurpassed Buddhahood.
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You can also download this ebook to read about this mantra... it was based on the teachings of the master who realised the Three Kayas of Buddha: Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche
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Originally posted by Positron:
Anyone knows how to pronouce this mantra.Many of my buddhist friends have no idea how to pronouce this mantra.
This mantra is in which language?
You need to die first in order to find out the real pronounciation to that mantra.Because there will be many priests who will teach you the real pronounciation by chanting non-stop day and night around your coffin.
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Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:
Yes. Chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo is for people like me who wish to be reborn in Amitabha's (ah mi tuo fo) Pureland. After chanting Nan wu ah mi tuo fo , it is better to follow by a vow that you wish to be born in Pureland. I'm very sure of this.I don't think by chanting om mani padme hum will enable one to be born in Pureland. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong. Chanting om mani padme hum is more for blessing and wish fulfilling. Correct me if I'm not wrong.
Hi Dawnfirstlight,Chant mani mantra can reborn in Amitabha's pureland. Many masters have said. Chenrezig is the foremost Pusa in the pureland there... so of course supplicating him will bring one to the pureland... many Tibetans go there through their practice of mani.
Most important is the aspiration to go Amitabha pureland. You must really wish to go and pray to go. Then recite the mani mantra at the same time.
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Originally posted by parn:
You need to die first in order to find out the real pronounciation to that mantra.Because there will be many priests who will teach you the real pronounciation by chanting non-stop day and night around your coffin.
No need:-
http://dharma-haven.org/tibetan/meaning-of-om-mani-padme-hung.htmThe Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum
The Mani mantra is the most widely used of all Buddhist mantras, 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 complication: The syllablePad is pronounced Pe (peh) by many Tibetans: Om Mani Peme Hung.
Here's the sound of the mantra,
chanted by a Tibetan refugee:Play Mantra
Windows .wavPlay Mantra
Real Audio
download playerThe 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.
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The True Sound of TruthAn old story speaks about a similar problem. A devoted meditator, after years concentrating on a particular mantra, had attained enough insight 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 some tea 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!
"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 should I 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 hermit standing 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 and over, as he walked across the surface of the water back to the island.
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The main aim of Buddhist practice is to get out of the cycle of Birth and Death, not for earthly blessings such as good health, wealth and prosperity, longlife, or a good next life as a human being or even to be born as a deva etc.
Though merits of practice can be dedicated for these results, none of these results last. In fact, earthly results may indirectly cause one to fall in the future. For example, if I chant and do good deeds so that I can be wealthy and powerful in my next life, and suppose the causes and conditione ripen and I am indeed wealthy in my next life. But then because of my position, I started to commit lots of evil karma in body speech and mind, then in the subsequent life, I have to become an animal / hungry ghost / hell dweller.
The cycle of birth and death is dangerous. There is no assurance that we can still remain a human in our next life. Once we lose our human rebirth, it will be difficult to crawl back up. We should always dedicate any merits for non-worldly results such as Buddhahood, rebirth in Pureland, etc., and repent constantly on the evil committed with body speech and mind.
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Originally posted by wisdomeye:
huh? i thought it is NA MO A MI TUO FO?
The æ— read as "MO" right?
Someone please confirm...
Sorry my buddhsit frenz recited it wrongly.I will tell them later.Justnow gt ppl correct me. -
Originally posted by wisdomeye:
Hi Positron,
This mantra is the mantra of Chenrezig/Guan Yin. I'd post up a article by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche on this mantra later. It purifies your bad karma, creates good energy in you, removes the obscurations that block your buddha-nature so that you can realise emptiness, it creates merit and great blessings.... many people pray to Guan Yin for help in urgent situations like accidents, disasters, great pain, sickness etc. And this mantra is the main essential mantra of Guan Yin. Very very powerful for healing, and wishfulfilling definitely. At the end of your life, you will not fall into the lower realms and if you are diligent, Guan Yin will guide you to Amitabha pureland.
Many Buddhists chant this mantra, because it is both short and simple and yet full of blessings... there are many stories of people who received spiritual accomplishments from a full faith and practice of this mantra.
Make a target to chant at least 700,000 in your life. The mantra blessings get stronger as you chant more...
700,000!!!That's alot. -
Originally posted by wisdomeye:
Hi Dawnfirstlight,Chant mani mantra can reborn in Amitabha's pureland. Many masters have said. Chenrezig is the foremost Pusa in the pureland there... so of course supplicating him will bring one to the pureland... many Tibetans go there through their practice of mani.
Most important is the aspiration to go Amitabha pureland. You must really wish to go and pray to go. Then recite the mani mantra at the same time.
I see.Chanting this can attain rebirth in pureland too.
I got a question,nowadays some of the buddhsit I know listen to mp3 files that recites the buddha name. medicine buddha,amtb buddha,guang ying pusa etc.
Listening to those mp3 files will make merit, purify bad karma and make good karma?
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Originally posted by Positron:
700,000!!!That's alot.If you chant everyday, it's not difficult. If not in one year, then in a few... if not in a few years, then in 10 years. 10 years = 3650 days, if you chant 200 everyday then thats 730,000.
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Then those ppl who do not chant but listen to the recitation get different results from ppl who make it a point to chant?
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
If you chant everyday, it's not difficult. If not in one year, then in a few... if not in a few years, then in 10 years. 10 years = 3650 days, if you chant 200 everyday then thats 730,000.
Yes.