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Mani stones are stone plates, rocks, or pebbles inscribed with the six-syllabled mantra of Avalokiteshvara [1] (Om mani padme hum, hence the name mani stone) as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism. The term mani stone may also be used to refer to stones on which any mantra or devotional designs (such as ashtamangala ) are inscribed or painted.
14th century Goryeo painting of Ksitigarbha holding a cintamani Mani stone In Buddhism, the wish fulfilling jewel (Skt. maṇi , cintā-maṇi , cintāmaṇi-ratna ) is an important mythic symbol indicating a magical jewel that manifests one's wishes, including the curing of disease, purification of water, granting clothing, food, treasure etc.
However, the Mani Jewel metaphors were significantly expanded in Chinese language texts in which it was also called by essentially the same redundant name móní zhū, where the first two characters (摩尼; móní) are the transcription of mani and the third character (珠) is its Chinese translation, "jewel". The English phrase "Mani Jewel ...
Gemstone meanings are inspired by everything from royal traditions and chakras to ancient cultures and spiritual thoughts. “The myriad of colors of gemstones alone transmit energy via the ...
Mani was an Iranian [20] [21] [a] born in 216 CE in or near Ctesiphon (now al-Mada'in, Iraq) in the Parthian Empire. According to the Cologne Mani-Codex, [22] Mani's parents were members of the Jewish Christian Gnostic sect known as the Elcesaites. [23] Mani composed seven works, six of which were written in the late-Aramaic Syriac language.
As a gesture of repentance, Khrothung built a stupa and piled up mani stones around it. In the 18th century, the stupa and mani stone piles were discovered by Pema Rinchen (白馬仁欽), founder of the Pukang Temple (菩康寺 or 普康寺) at Sêrxü. He vowed to build a "city made of mani stones", which gradually became the Gsumge Mani Stone ...
The facial features of the prophet (arched eyebrows, fleshy jowls) are somewhat different from a traditional Chinese stone Buddha as well. [38] It is even said that the stone Mani the Buddha of Light used to have a mustache or sideburns, but they were removed by a 20th-century Buddhist monk, trying to make the statue more like a traditional Buddha.
There is a research group (Iwakura Gakkai) that claims that the belief in rock formations and megaliths, including these, can be traced back to the Jōmon period, and that there are also artificially arranged rock formations, and that their arrangement represents certain figures, directions, or the shape of the Constellation.