Interactive Phonology & Bookmark Studio · 02
Mantra Syllable Studio
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Six-Syllable Mantra of Avalokiteśvara
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ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ།
ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ
· Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ
· Om ma-ni pe-me hung
Generosity · Dissolves Pride (Deva realm)
Awakened body, speech, and mind; generosity dissolving pride.
Ten-Syllable Mantra of Green Tārā
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ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
ॐ तारे तुत्तारे तुरे स्वाहा
· Oṃ tāre tuttāre ture svāhā
· Om ta-re tut-ta-re tu-re so-ha
Invocation · Awakened Presence
Consecration of body, speech, and mind in receptive presence.
Arapacana Wisdom Mantra of Mañjuśrī
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ཨོཾ་ཨ་ར་པ་ཙ་ན་དྷཱིཿ
ॐ अ र प च न धीः
· Oṃ a ra pa ca na dhīḥ
· Om a ra pa tsa na dhi
Stillness · Clear Attention
Opening stillness before inquiry.
Bhaiṣajyaguru (Medicine Buddha) Short Dhāraṇī
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ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨོཾ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་མ་ཧཱ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་རཱ་ཛ་ས་མུདྒ་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
तद्यथा ॐ भैषज्ये भैषज्ये महाभैषज्ये राजसमुद्गते स्वाहा
· Tadyathā oṃ bhaiṣajye bhaiṣajye mahābhaiṣajye rājasamudgate svāhā
· Te-ya-tha om be-kan-dze be-kan-dze ma-ha be-kan-dze ra-dza sa-mung-ga-te so-ha
Threshold · Opening Formula
“Thus it is:” — Opening formula introducing a healing dhāraṇī.
Six-Syllable Essence Mantra of Vajrasattva
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ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ཧཱུྃ།
ॐ वज्रसत्त्व हूँ
· Oṃ vajrasattva hūṃ
· Om ben-za sa-to hung
Presence · Honest Ground
Returning honestly to unadorned awareness.
Twelve-Syllable Vajra Guru Mantra (Padmasambhava)
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ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ།
ॐ आः हूँ वज्र गुरु पद्म सिद्धि हूँ
· Oṃ āḥ hūṃ vajra guru padma siddhi hūṃ
· Om ah hung ben-za gu-ru pe-ma si-dhi hung
Body Vajra · Grounded Presence
Awakened Body (Nirmāṇakāya): grounds scattered physical energy into stillness.