单词 | mani wall |
释义 | > as lemmasmani wall Any of various sacred objects or aids to prayer; esp. a prayer wheel containing ‘Om maṇi padme hūṃ’ or other mantras (cf. prayer wheel n.), or a stone slab or wall of slabs inscribed with this or other mantras (frequently attributive in mani wall). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > structures of or in land > [noun] > prayer-wall mani1818 mendang1854 prayer wall1872 Wailing Wall1878 Western Wall1899 c1774 G. Bogle in C. R. Markham Narr. Mission G. Bogle to Tibet (1876) iii. 29 Some old women..were counting their beads and repeating their Om mani padmi hums!] 1818 A. Gerard Jrnl. 5 Oct. in Acct. Koonawur (1841) 277 We passed several tumuli from ten to forty feet in length... They are called Mane, and are erected over the graves of Lamas. ?a1840 A. Gerard Acct. Koonawur (1841) ii. 127 Cylinders, called Mane, are common. 1863 E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet xiii. 196 Mani, originally a Sanskrit word meaning ‘a precious stone’,..is used to designate walls of about six feet in height and four to eight feet in breadth. 1863 E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet xiii. 196 The prayer cylinders are also called ‘Manis’. 1896 W. Simpson Buddhist Praying-wheel ii. 31 The Mantra is known to the Tibetans as the ‘Mani’; this will explain why the name is given to the Wheel as well as to the dikes of stone. 1925 B. Beetham in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 i. viii. 171 The mani-walls (prayer-stones) had once been of an unusually imposing nature. 1953 Tsung-Lien Shen & Shen-Chi Liu Tibet v. 118 The approach to a village or monastery is marked by a Mani wall or by a pagoda. 1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard iii. 193 A benign presence with four hands, bearing a string of pearls, a lotus, and the blue orb or mani that signifies compassion. 1991 E. A. Scarborough Nothing Sacred iv. 137 I particularly like the smooth, carved mani stones—there must have been millions of them here once, engraved with prayers and piled into walls. < as lemmas |
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