Clicking on the link for each mantra below will take you to a page where you can read about that mantra, see the figure associated with the mantra (where applicable), and listen to an audio version of the mantra.
You can chant along to the mantra until you’re confident that you have it fully memorized. There are ten repetitions of each mantra (more or less) to help give you time to learn the mantra and chant along. You can replay the mantra until you think you’ve got it.
Please note that the mantras as written on this site lack some of the diacritic marks that allow for an accurate representation of the pronunciation.
(Diacritics, or accents, are little marks that indicate how a letter should be pronounced. Pali and Sanskrit have many more letters than the Roman alphabet, and these marks allow us to extend the number of characters available to us. Diacritics include the macron — a bar over a vowel that lengthens the vowel sound — overdots, underdots, and tildes. Unfortunately not all fonts possess those diacritic marks, and although some fonts do have the full range of accents not all computers have those fonts installed. There’s therefore no reliable way to represent diacritics on the web. You therefore may sometimes see strange characters or question marks in words.)
It’s best to listen to the audio files in order to get a better appreciation of how they are pronounced (taking into account the fact that I have a Scottish accent). In the heading of each page I’ve represented long vowels with a double vowel (eg. aa) or, where it’s possible to reproduce these in html, with a letter and diacritic mark (e.g. ?).
Note: Tibetans typically pronounce some Sanskrit sounds in a non-Indian way. For example they’ll tend to pronounce “padme” (pa-dmé) as peh-mé, and “svaha” as soha. Those who are familiar with the Tibetan pronunciation will therefore notice differences such as these.
Sabbe satta sukhi hontu
Om shanti shanti shanti
Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
Avalokitesvara: Om Mani Padme Hum
Manjushri/Manjughosa: Om A Ra Pa Ca Na Dhih
Vajrapani: Om Vajrapani Hum
Green Tara: Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha
Amitabha: Om Amideva Hrih
White Tara: Om Tare Tuttare Ture Mama Ayuh Punya Jnana Pushtim Kuru Svaha
Shakyamuni: Om Muni Muni Mahamuni Shakyamuni Svaha
Padmasambhava: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum
Bhaisajyaguru (Medicine Buddha): Om Bhaishajye Bhaishajye Mahabhaishajye Bhaishajyaraje Samudgate Svaha
Vajrasattva: 100-Syllable Mantra.
By following the links you can find out the meanings, pronunciations, and benefits of the Buddhist mantras listed above.
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Thank you for your suggestion, Kelvin - I'll certainly follow it up!
Metta,
Trish
i want to knw the buddhist mantras for overall well being like getting positive energy ,having good aura around you,ward off
evil energy around me and being peaceful please hel;p me as i im in need of it desperately ,will look forward for your respo
nse
Hi Bhavya,
You might like to try this mantra.
Cundi Dharani
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namah saptānām , samyak-sambuddha kotinam ..
tad-yathā ...om .... cale cule cundi svāhā
( repeat as many times at each prayer time - reap good benefits )
Best wishes.
Any mantra, recited with full attention, will protect the mind and give you positive energy.
Also found as: namo saptanam samyaksambuddha kotinam tadyatha: om, cale, cule, cundi svaha.
The actual root mantra is the bit that follows "tadyatha," which means "thus." (All the C's are pronounced like the CH in the English word "church," but you can hear an audio version of the mantra here.) [Link removed March 20, 2015, since the site had been hacked and contaminated with malware .]
It's not a mantra I'm familiar with and it seems to be a rather late one. There's a little bit about it on Visible Mantra, the sutra it's from is found here [old e-sangha.com link removed since the page is now infected with malware], and you can see the script here, although the image is lifted from another site.
I am trying for a year to get texts of Budhist mantra and sacred holy books to read. I like to read them, for example from first line to the last. Like I can read the whole Bible or the whole Bhagavad Gita. But all I get is no mantra and no sacred and holy budhist book but zillions of web links that lead me to other Budhist web sites which show zillion more web links but no sign of any budhist sacred or holly book or mantra for me to read. Can you show me a web site where I can read an entire Budhist sacred book and mantra.
Regards
Shahid
Hi Shahid,
There are so many Buddhist canonical texts, but no single source as with the Bible or Koran, which may be part of your problem. What's regarded as a genuine Buddhist text varies from tradition to tradition as well.
In the Theravadin tradition the "holy" texts form what is known as the Pali Canon, and this forms a body of work many times larger than the Bible. Some of this is available online at Access to Insight and that's a good place to start your researches. A text like the Dhammapada is a good one to start with.
There are also many later Mahayana texts, including the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, White Lotus Sutra, Vimalakirti Nirdesha, etc, but I'd suggest that it's generally best to start with the Pali texts since they represent the earliest teachings and they're generally more straightforward.
Dear Souls,
If you do not mind a recommendation, there is a very special book available called "The Mantra Book" by Lillian Too. It contains many mantras, their meaning, translations and explanations.
I have found it worthwhile maybe you will too.
Dear Souls,
Annie's recommendation is good; Lillian writes from Malaysia and she has guru from Tibet and she's good author
in several of her Feng-Shui books.
Best regards.
Kelvin
Could somebody explainme the leaning of the following mantra: OM AMOKA VAIROSHANA MAHA MUDRA MANI PADMA SHUBARA PRABA RATAYA HUM
Thank you!