and love.[...]" "The two syllables, padme, meaning lotus, symbolize wisdom[...]" "Purity must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolized by the final syllable hung, which indicates indivisibility[...]" "Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hung, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha[...]" —Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, "On the meaning of: OM MANI PADME HUNG" Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche "The mantra Om Mani Pädme Hum is easy to say yet quite powerful, because it contains the essence of the entire teaching. When you say the first syllable Om it is blessed to help you achieve perfection in the practice of generosity, Ma helps perfect the practice of pure ethics, and Ni helps achieve perfection in the practice of tolerance and patience. Pä, the fourth syllable, helps to achieve perfection of perseverance, Me helps achieve perfection in the practice of concentration, and the final sixth syllable Hum helps achieve perfection in the practice of wisdom. "So in this way recitation of the mantra helps achieve perfection in the six practices from generosity to wisdom. The path of these six perfections is the path walked by all the Buddhas of the three times. What could then be more meaningful than to say the mantra and accomplish the six perfections?" —Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones Transliterations In English, the mantra is variously transliterated, depending on the schools of Buddhism as well as individual teachers. Most authorities consider maṇipadme to be one compound word rather than two simple words. Sanskrit writing does not have capital letters and this means that capitalisation of transliterated mantras varies from all caps, to initial caps, to no caps. The all-caps rendering is typical of older scholarly works, and Tibetan Sadhana texts. IAST (Roman alphabet): Tibetan: (Tibetan Pinyin: Om Mani Bêmê Hum) Sanskrit: (oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ) Mongolian: Classical Mongolian: (Owam mani padme huum) Khalkha: Ум мани бадмэ хум (Um mani badme khum) Buryat: Ом маани бадмэ хум (Om maani badme khum) Kalmyk: Ом мани бадме хум (Om mani badme xum) 'Phags pa: ʼom ma ni pad me hung Manchu: (Om mani padme hüüm) Tangut: ·a mja nji pja mjij xo Old Uyghur: oom mani badmi xung Jurchen: am ma ni