On a smooth wall of rock "Om mani padme hum" is hewn in characters a yard high.
And during the whole peregrination they pray "Om mani padme hum," and every time this prayer is uttered they let a bead of the rosary pass through the fingers.
Then six slabs were placed in a row to spell out the sacred formula, "Om mani padme hum.
On all the roads we ride daily past wall-like stone cists covered with slabs, on which the formula "Om mani padme hum" is carved.
On six of them each of the holy characters is incised, and each of the gigantic characters is again filled in with the invariable alpha and omega of Lamaism, "Om mani padme hum.
More frequently than an Ave Maria or a Paternoster in the Catholic world, "Om mani padme hum" forms an accompaniment to the life and wanderings of humanity over half Asia.
In the ears of the Tibetan another saying rings, the mystical formula "Om mani padme hum," not only on his wanderings to the goal of his pilgrimage, but throughout his life.
On the sides of granite rocks polished smooth by wind and weather figures of Buddha are frequently cut, and below them, as well as on fallen boulders, can be read in gigantic characters "Om mani padme hum.
A notice of Tibetan Buddhism can hardly avoid referring to the use of praying wheels and the celebrated formula Om maǹ£i padme hum.
Footnote 1051: Padme is said to be commonly pronounced peme.
The Thibetians of these countries raise from them beautiful slate, which they use in tiling their houses; they also raise very thick pieces, upon which they engrave images of Buddha with the form, "Om mane padme houm.
The literal sense, then, of this phrase is this: Om mani padme houm.
These six classes of living beings correspond to the six syllables of the formula 'Om mani padme houm.
The shepherds of these regions are in the habit of cutting from them large slabs, on which they carve the image of Buddha, or the formula "Om mani padme houm," and which they afterwards place on the roadside.
He also initiated the king into the mysteries of Buddhism, and communicated to him the sacred formula "Om mani padme houm," which spread rapidly through all the countries of Thibet and Mongolia.
According to the opinion of the celebrated orientalist Klaproth, "Om mani padme houm" is merely the Thibetian transcription of a Sanscrit formula brought from India to Thibet.
It was covered over with painted leather inscribed with the usual Om Mani Padme Hum (Hail, jewel of the lotus flower).
The flow of the stream causes it to revolve unceasingly, and each revolution is supposed to be equivalent to a single utterance of the words, om mane padme hom.
The sacred formula "Om mani padme hum" is carved on a slab of green slate, and lizards, as green as the stone, dart about over the words of eternal truth.
Then Death comes one day and looks in through the tent door; in vain is the constant prayer "Om mani padme hum" repeated; vain are all attempts to conjure or propitiate the evil powers that are inimical to the children of men.
A monk recites "Om mani padme hum" in rising and falling tones with the rapidity of an expert, and the others join in, making some kind of responses.
The slabs used in the construction of these obos were mostly white, and bore in many instances the inscription "Omne mani padme hun.
We were so exhausted and wet that when near the evening we came to an enormous cliff, on the rocky face of which a patient Lama sculptor had engraved in huge letters the characters, Omne mani padme hun, we halted.
He solaced his soul by murmuring the pious invocation which all pilgrims to the Sacred Mount have perpetually on their lips--"Om mane padme om!
Om mani padme hum" rolled from their lips seven times, and seemed to suggest the dreamy atmosphere of the occult.
These six classes of beings correspond to the syllables of the formula, 'Om mani padme houm.
The slabs were usually white, and bore in many instances the inscription "Omne mani padme hun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "padme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
