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

(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

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