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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. Mani stones are intentionally placed along the roadsides and rivers [1] or grouped together to form mounds, [1] cairns, [2] or sometimes long walls, as an offering to spirits of place or genius loci.
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The crystal seal of Mani (French: Sceau de Mani), also known as the crystal sealstone of Mani or the Manichean Rock-Crystal Seal, is a crystal stone seal with intaglio busts of three Manichean elect. There is a circle of Syriac writing around the intaglio, which could have been a personal seal used by Mani, the founder of Manichaeism. [1]
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 ...
The seal of Mani, the oldest known Manichaean art. Manichaeism has a rich tradition of visual art, starting with Mani himself writing the Book of Pictures. [1]One of Mani's primary beliefs was that the arts (namely painting, calligraphy, and music) were of the same esteem as the divine spirit (Middle Persian: Mihryazd), believing that the creation of art was comparable to god's creation of ...
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.
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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 ...