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‖ om mani padme hum, int.|ɔːm mani padme hum|
[Skr., lit. ‘Hail! Jewel in the Lotus!’ See om int. and quot. 1848 below.]
In Tibetan Buddhism, a mantra or mystic formula intoned in prayer and meditation. Also as n. phr.
1774G. Bogle Narr. Mission Tibet (1876) iii. 29 Some old women..were counting their beads and repeating their Om mani padmi hums! 1836B. H. Hodgson in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal V. 88 The celebrated Shadakshari Mantra, or six-lettered invocation of him, viz. Om! Mane padme hom! of which so many corrupt versions and more corrupt interpretations have appeared. 1848J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. (1854) I. x. 229, I..returned down the ‘via sacra’, a steep paved path flanked by..low stone dykes, into which were let rows of stone slabs, inscribed with the sacred ‘Om Mani Padmi om’.—‘Hail to him of the lotus and jewel’; an invocation of Sakkya, who is usually represented holding a lotus flower with a jewel in it. 1863E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet viii. 84 Amitābha then blessed Padmapāni Bōdhisattva by laying his hands upon him, when, by virtue of this benediction, he brought forth the prayer ‘Om mani padme hum’. 1895L. A. Waddell Buddhism of Tibet vi. 148 The commonest mystic formula in Lāmaism, the ‘Om-ma-ni pad-me Hū-m,’—which literally means ‘Om! The Jewel in the Lotus! Hūm!’—is addressed to the Bodhisat Padmapāni who is represented like Buddha seated or standing within a lotus-flower. He is the patron-god of Tibet. 1901Kipling Kim ii. 47 In the pauses of their talk they could hear the low droning—‘Om mane pudme hum! Om mane pudme hum!’—and the thick click of the wooden rosary beads. Ibid. v. 111 He clicked the beads, and began the ‘Om mane pudme hum’ of his devotion. 1924A. Huxley Little Mexican 16 A mystic formula, a kind of Om mani padme hum. 1970J. Blofeld Way of Power i. i. 38 Old women twirling their prayer-wheels and intoning Om Mani Padme Hum while riding in buses. |