mani stone

noun

A stone, rock or pebble usually inscribed with the mantra om mani padme hum, used as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism.

OriginTibetan ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ ← Sanskrit ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं →
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Meanings

nounmani stone (plural mani stones)

plural mani stones

  1. BuddhismA stone, rock or pebble usually inscribed with the mantra om mani padme hum, used as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism.

Origin

  1. Sanskritॐ मणिपद्मे हूं
  2. Tibetanཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ
  3. Englishmani stone

From the mantra usually inscribed on them, from Tibetan ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ (oṃ ma ṇi pdme hūm̐), from Sanskrit ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं (oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 嘛呢石
  • 嘛呢石 (mānīshí)Translations
German Manistein
  • ManisteinTranslations
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