om mani padme hum

English

Alternative forms

• om mani padme hun

Etymology

From Sanskrit ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं (oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ, “O, she with the jewel in the lotus”), internally derived from मणि (maṇi, “jewel”) and पद्म (padma, “lotus”). ॐ (oṃ) and हूं (hūṃ) are not translated.

Phrase

om mani padme hum

1. (Buddhism) A mantra associated with Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, the primary mantra of Tibetan Buddhism.

Derived terms

• mani stone

Translations

mantra

• Bengali: ওঁ মণিপদ্মে হুঁ (ō̃ monipodme hũ)
• Burmese: ဥုံမဏိပဒ္မေဟုံ
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 (zh) (ǎn mání bāmī hōng)

• Dzongkha: ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ (oṃ ma ṇi pdme hūm̐)
• French: om mani padme hum
• Korean: 옴마니반메훔 (ommanibanmehum)
• Sanskrit: ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं (oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ)
• Tibetan: ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ (oṃ ma ṇi pdme hūm̐)
• Vietnamese: án ma ni bát mê hồng