Slab with religious text

Museum number:
9-102
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.371
Description:
Small fragment of slab of gray stone (slate) with inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a prayer: Om mani padme hum (repeated on 3 lines). The prayer is of Sanskrit origin; the script is derived historically from the devanagari script for Sanskrit. For one interpretation of the inscription and for photos of mai walls in Ladakh, India, see: “Mountaintop War in Remote Ladakh” by W.E. Garrett, National Geographic, Vol. 122, #5 (May, 1963), pp. 685-7. The interpretation is: Om= I invoke the path and experience of universality, so that. Mani= the jeweline luminosity of my immortal mind. Padme= be unfolded within the depth of the lotus-center of awakened consciousness. Hum= and I be wafted by the ecstasy of breaking though all bonds and horizons. But Dr. Bosson, UC Oriental Languages Department says this prayer had no meaning; the meaning has been lost (June, 1965).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Slate (rock)
Object type:
archaeology
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #103: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (June 11, 1965–August 6, 1965) and S1987-1988 #4: Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion (July 15, 1987–September 21, 1987)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Slab with religious text, accession number 9-102, described as Small fragment of slab of gray stone (slate) with inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a prayer: Om mani padme hum (repeated on 3 lines). The prayer is of Sanskrit origin; the script is derived historically from the devanagari script for Sanskrit. For one interpretation of the inscription and for photos of mai walls in Ladakh, India, see: “Mountaintop War in Remote Ladakh” by W.E. Garrett, National Geographic, Vol. 122, #5 (May, 1963), pp. 685-7. The interpretation is: Om= I invoke the path and experience of universality, so that. Mani= the jeweline luminosity of my immortal mind. Padme= be unfolded within the depth of the lotus-center of awakened consciousness. Hum= and I be wafted by the ecstasy of breaking though all bonds and horizons. But Dr. Bosson, UC Oriental Languages Department says this prayer had no meaning; the meaning has been lost (June, 1965).Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Slab with religious text, accession number 9-102, described as Small fragment of slab of gray stone (slate) with inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a prayer: Om mani padme hum (repeated on 3 lines). The prayer is of Sanskrit origin; the script is derived historically from the devanagari script for Sanskrit. For one interpretation of the inscription and for photos of mai walls in Ladakh, India, see: “Mountaintop War in Remote Ladakh” by W.E. Garrett, National Geographic, Vol. 122, #5 (May, 1963), pp. 685-7. The interpretation is: Om= I invoke the path and experience of universality, so that. Mani= the jeweline luminosity of my immortal mind. Padme= be unfolded within the depth of the lotus-center of awakened consciousness. Hum= and I be wafted by the ecstasy of breaking though all bonds and horizons. But Dr. Bosson, UC Oriental Languages Department says this prayer had no meaning; the meaning has been lost (June, 1965).Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Slab with religious text, accession number 9-102, described as Small fragment of slab of gray stone (slate) with inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a prayer: Om mani padme hum (repeated on 3 lines). The prayer is of Sanskrit origin; the script is derived historically from the devanagari script for Sanskrit. For one interpretation of the inscription and for photos of mai walls in Ladakh, India, see: “Mountaintop War in Remote Ladakh” by W.E. Garrett, National Geographic, Vol. 122, #5 (May, 1963), pp. 685-7. The interpretation is: Om= I invoke the path and experience of universality, so that. Mani= the jeweline luminosity of my immortal mind. Padme= be unfolded within the depth of the lotus-center of awakened consciousness. Hum= and I be wafted by the ecstasy of breaking though all bonds and horizons. But Dr. Bosson, UC Oriental Languages Department says this prayer had no meaning; the meaning has been lost (June, 1965).

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