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There were prayer wheels everywhere in Nepal and we soon learned to spin them, and say a beautiful mantra taught to us by our guide. "Om Mani Padme Hum". Pronounced: "OHM-MAH-NEE-PAHD-MAY-HUM. This mantra, or prayer, means "Praise to the jewel in the lotus." This might not make any sense, but we learned that it's meaning is 'great and vast' because all the teachings of Buddha are wrapped up in this one phrase. Each syllable represents one of the six goals of Buddhist existence and helps heal or purify and bring forth the positive qualities associated with that goal.
Om: = the vibration or sound of the universe; represents divine energy and generosity and purifies the ego.
Ma: = represents ethics and purifies jealousy
Ni: = represetns patience and purifies want or desire
Pad: = represents diligence and purifies ignorance and judgement
Me: = represents concentration and purifies attachment
Hum: = the unity of all; represents wisdom and purifies hatred.
And now you know why I never missed an opportunity to spin a prayer wheel and say this chant, even though I'm not a Hindu or Buddhist. The mantra is something very special.
Compassionate Ethics in Difficult Times - The Dalai Lama
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Om mani padme hum
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The Korgis - everybody's got to learn sometime
digital 2016
This man with his extraordinary talent has had me and so many others singing,dancing,laughing and crying for nearly 50 years and has been a big part of our lives soundtrack .!
So long and thank you Leonard ....safe journey....!
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
"OM MANI PÄDME HUM"
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digital 2016
This man with his extraordinary talent has had me and so many others singing,dancing,laughing and crying for nearly 50 years and has been a big part of our lives soundtrack .!
So long and thank you Leonard ....safe journey....!
"We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky."
"OM MANI PÄDME HUM"
ༀ༌མ༌ཎི༌པbེ༌ཧཱུྃ།
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Stakna Monastery from opposite bank of river Indus. Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Ladakh : Day 3
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These are Buddhist prayer flags that are strung across my bookshelf. Each flag presents a symbol and one word of the Sanskrit mantra 'Om mani padme hum'.
Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the embodiment of compassion. Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect -- it is often carved into stones and placed where people can see them.
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Ladakh : Day 6
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This is a close-up of a Tibetan prayer wheel made of metal and wood which is in Sheh palace, in Ladakh.
Here in the Himalayan hills, people believe that according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.
The most commonly used mantra in prayer wheels is Om Mani Padme Hum.
This mantra is the resonant vibration that helps tune a human being toward enlightenment energies.
The earliest recorded prayer wheels was written by a Chinese pilgrim around 400 CE. in Ladakh.
The concept of the prayer wheel is a physical manifestation of the phrase "turning the wheel of Dharma," which describes the way in which the Buddha taught.
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" The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you dont expect to sit.. "
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Likir Monastery or Likir Gompa, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Ladakh : Day 10
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I don't know why but I really like this photo. It has certain placid and tranquil feel in contrast to the chaotic and restless clouds rising from the horizon. For a very simple composition, I wonder how you like this shot.
Really under Himalayan Skies !
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If there's one thing about Tibetan babies, it's that they're awfully cute. As for the grannies and grandads - they are perhaps, even cuter. Without being disrepectful, I find old Tibetan faces amazingly beautiful, with so much character and soul.
Here, a lovely old lady smiles at me, while she recites her Mani mantras, prayer wheel in one hand and 'mala' in the other. After this picture was taken, she directed me to the main temple, and urged me to make my own wishes. If I could make one wish - let me make it world peace, where all beings live with compassion, love, generosity and true happiness.
Matt
From Wikipedia:
Oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ (Sanskrit: ओं मणिपद्मे हूं, IPA: [õːː məɳipəd̪meː ɦũː]) is a mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara. Mani means the jewel and Padma-the lotus. It is the six syllabled mantra of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara (Tibetan Chenrezig, Chinese Guanyin).
The mantra is especially revered by the devotees of the Dalai Lama, as he is said to be an incarnation of Chenrezig or Avalokiteshvara.
It is commonly carved onto rocks and written on paper which is inserted into prayer wheels, said to increase the mantra's effects. 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.
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. 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.
We were coming down the Thorung-La (5416m), on the way down we started to be hungry, luckily a man with Tibetan origin is running is small business on the way... He kept on praying while taking the order, I was captivated by his hand...
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Chemrey Monastery or Chemrey Gonpa, Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Ladakh : Day 9
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Supongo que esta es para los que tienen que pedir mucho!!!
Esta imagen fue tomada en la estupa budista de Boudhanath en Kathmandu, Nepal.
I suppose this kind of prayer wheel is for people which need a lot of things!!.
This image was taken at the Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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after a journey of heaven (LEH-LADAKH) i realise we all r living into hell.. a real beauty is God's nature..if we trying to describing tht in words tht surly a insult of God for sure..A place when u really found what is actually meaning of peace..
nature will huge u in every single steps..and every single step take u one more step closer to God..U must feeling Like doing mediation with open eyes..and all of the moment of peace and reflection of God i have converted into one small video just to
show u and just to awake u " DO NOT MISSED THIS PLACE "
Location : Ladakh, Himalaya, INDIA
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Om Mani Padme Hum.
Om Mani Padme Hum.
Om Mani Padme Hum.
This is the view from the Shanti Stupa in Leh, India. It is one of the Peace Pagodas the Japanese built around the world.
A prayer wheel is a cylindrical "wheel". According to the lineage texts on wheels, prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit (good karma) and to purify negativities (bad karma)
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Mani stones are stone plates, rocks and/or pebbles, inscribed with the six syllabled mantra of Avalokiteshvara (Om mani padme hum, hence the name "Mani stone"), as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism. The term Mani stone may also be used in a loose sense to refer to stones on which any mantra or devotional designs (such as ashtamangala) are inscribed. Mani stones are intentionally placed along the roadsides and rivers or placed together to form mounds or cairns or sometimes long walls, as an offering to spirits of place or genius loci. Creating and carving mani stones as devotional or intentional process art is a traditional sadhana of piety to yidam. Mani stones are a form of devotional cintamani.
"Om Mani Padme Hum" which loosely translates to "Hail to the jewel in the lotus".
Nanluoguxiang, Beijing, China- Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ[1] (Sanskrit: ॐ मणि पद्मे हूं, IPA: [õːː məɳipəd̪meː ɦũː]) is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara (Tibetan Chenrezig, Chinese Guanyin [観音], Japanese Kannon), the bodhisattva of compassion. Mani means "jewel" or "bead" and Padma means "the lotus flower", the Buddhist Sacred Flower.
Stupa Cemetery by Irene Becker © All rights reserved
The Stupa Burial Field , Shey, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The largest chorten field in Ladakh.
Ladakh : Day 3
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Oldest and largest gompa in Ladakh, India
Ladakh : Day 7
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El año pasado, por estas fechas, estaba saliendo por estas calles niponas de nocturnas. Una experiencia inolvidable que me dejo marca.
Aunque el formato no es panorámico, es una panorámica con un re encuadre. Son 6 tomas HDR, cada toma HDR formada por 6 tomas. Un total de 36 tomas para formar esta panorámica. HDR unidos con Photomatix, reveladas con Lightroom y unidas con PTgui Pro.
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Thiksey Monastery or Thiksey Gonpa. Ladakh region of Jammu Kashmir, India.
Ladakh : Day 3
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"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 5
Mani stones and prayer flags on the high altitude rocky desert, Chumathang ~ Ladakh
Same as Prayer Flags, Mani stones (Prayer stones) are a common sight in the Himalayan regions in Ladakh where Buddhism is widely practiced, you will find these stones in every corner in the villages, along the roadsides, rivers, outside the monasteries or placed together to form mounds next to sacred places. This is a symbol of Buddhism that stones carved with a sacred words, phrases and Tibetan Buddhist mantra.
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