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    This document discusses common Buddhist mantras, including: - OM MANI PADME HUM, the mantra of Buddha Avalokiteshvara who embodies compassion. - Mantras of other Buddhas like Shakyamuni, Tsongkhapa, Prajnaparamita, Tara, Manjushri, and Amatayus which create causes for developing qualities like wisdom, compassion, and long life. - The Medicine Buddha mantra which releases beings from inner and outer sickness, especially the three poisons of attachment, anger and ignorance. - A mantra for blessing malas which increases the power of subsequent recitations when recited seven times and blown on

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    A small amount of common Mantras in the Buddhist tradition.

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    This document discusses common Buddhist mantras, including: - OM MANI PADME HUM, the mantra of Buddha Avalokiteshvara who embodies compassion. - Mantras of other Buddhas like Shakyamuni, Tsongkhapa, Prajnaparamita, Tara, Manjushri, and Amatayus which create causes for developing qualities like wisdom, compassion, and long life. - The Medicine Buddha mantra which releases beings from inner and outer sickness, especially the three poisons of attachment, anger and ignorance. - A mantra for blessing malas which increases the power of subsequent recitations when recited seven times and blown on

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    Common Mantras

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    This document discusses common Buddhist mantras, including: - OM MANI PADME HUM, the mantra of Buddha Avalokiteshvara who embodies compassion. - Mantras of other Buddhas like Shakyamuni, Tsongkhapa, Prajnaparamita, Tara, Manjushri, and Amatayus which create causes for developing qualities like wisdom, compassion, and long life. - The Medicine Buddha mantra which releases beings from inner and outer sickness, especially the three poisons of attachment, anger and ignorance. - A mantra for blessing malas which increases the power of subsequent recitations when recited seven times and blown on

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    Common MANTRAS

    By: Acharya Dhammajoti Blakeman

    1 Courtesy of You-Buddha | Mahabodhi Metta Mandala


    Mantras
    •Buddha Avalokiteshvara
    OM MANI PADME HUM
    -Buddha of Compassion
    - Creates the causes for developing Great Compassion

    •Mantra of all the Buddhas body speech & mind


    OM AH HUM
    -Creates the cause for the body speech and mind of a Buddha

    • Buddha Shakyamuni
    OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNIYE SOHA
    -4th deliverer of this fortunate Aeon
    -The mantra of Buddha Shakyamuni confers the blessings of
    taming the
    mind and purifies all Karma.
    - Reliance upon the Spiritual Guide

    •Je Tsongkhapa
    OM AH GURU VAJRADARA SUMARTI KIRTI SHIDI HUM
    -Embodiment of the Buddhas of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara),
    Wisdom
    (Manjushri), and Strength (Vajrapani)
    -Often the Migtsema Prayer is used (NKT)

    Tsongkhapa, crown ornament of the scholars of the Land of the


    Snows,
    You are Avalokiteshvara, the treasury of unobservable
    compassion,
    Manjushri, the supreme stainless wisdom,
    And Vajrapani, the destroyer of the hosts of maras;
    O Losang Dragpa I request you, please grant your blessings.

    2 Courtesy of You-Buddha | Mahabodhi Metta Mandala


    -Dharma Protector
    -Protector of the Je Tsongkhapa tradition

    •Prajnaparamita
    OM GATE GATE PARA GATE PARA SAMGATE BODHI SOHA
    -The Buddha of the Wisdom of Emptiness

    •Tara
    OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA
    - The Buddha of Active Compassion

    •White Tara
    OM TARE TUTARE TURE MAMA AYURPUNYE JNANA PUTIN
    KURU SVAHA.
    (Ohm Tahray Tootahray tooriay mahmah ahyoopoonyay jahnah
    pooteen kooroo
    swah hah)

    • Buddha Manjushri
    OM AH RA PA TSA NA DHI
    - Buddha of Wisdom
    - Creates the causes for developing Great Wisdom (and the
    Dharmakaya
    the Wisdom body of a Buddha)

    •Buddha Amatayus
    OM AMARANI ZEWATTEYE SOHA
    - Buddha of long life
    - Creates the causes for a long life

    •Medicine Buddha
    Tayata Om Bekhadze Bekhadze Maha Bekhadze Bekhadze Rudza
    Samungate
    Soha
    -Medicine Buddha functions to release all living beings from inner
    and outer sickness especially the internal pain of the three
    poisons:

    3 Courtesy of You-Buddha | Mahabodhi Metta Mandala


    atachment, anger and ignorance.

    • Blessing of a Mala
    OM RUTSIRA MANI PRAWA TAYA HUM
    -In the Palace of Vast Jewels - Sutra, it says to recite this seven
    times and then blow on the rosary to increase the power of
    subsequent
    recitations.

    4 Courtesy of You-Buddha | Mahabodhi Metta Mandala

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