02 September 2009

Vajrasattva Mantra

Vajrasattva: I replaced my rough Tibetan Calligraphy of hūṃ and oṃ vajrasattva hūṃ with images created using fonts. Much better! I've also added the 100 syllable mantra in Unicode - here it is again:


ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ས་མ་ཡ་མ་ནུ་པ་ལ་ཡ།
བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ཏྭེ་ནོ་པ་ཏིཥྛ། དྲྀ་ཌྷོ་མེ་བྷ་བ། སུ་ཏོ་ ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་བ།
སུ་པོ་ ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་བ། ཨ་ནུ་ར་ཀྟོ་མེ་བྷ་བ། ས་རྦ་སི་དྡྷི་མེ་པྲ་ཡ་ཙྪ།
ས་རྦ་ཀ་རྨ་སུ་ཙ་མེ ཙི་ཏྟཾ༌ཤེ་ཡཿ་ཀུ་རུ་ཧཱུྂ།
ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧོཿ བྷ་ག་བ་ན ས་རྦ ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་བཛྲ་མཱ་མེ་མུ་ཉྩ།
བཛྲཱི་བྷ་བ་མ་ཧཱ་ས་མ་ཡ་སཏྭ ཨཱཿ །།
ཧཱུྂ ཕ་ཊ

You can use this (ie cut and paste) to display the mantra using any Unicode font which has the Tibetan range - such as Tibetan Machine Uni, or Microsoft Himalaya. There are a number of other fonts around. Note that the 100 syllables end with āḥ - hūṃ and phaṭ are added for special purposes - see the page for explanations. Note also that there are variations in the spelling and my version is my best attempt to convey the Sanskrit using Uchen.
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4 comments:

  1. AlSeptember 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM

    On my OS X machine, one character in the entire mantra doesn't work.

    ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་བ།

    It is the last character above. Any clue as to why?

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  2. JayaravaSeptember 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM

    Hi Al

    Weird. It's just a danda or whatever the Tibetans call it. །
    Since the other dandas are working try cutting and pasting one of them into that position.

    Jayarava

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  3. JayaravaSeptember 4, 2009 at 10:30 PM

    I've looked at it in Notepad and there was something weird in there that I couldn't see properly. I've deleted it and will repost the entire mantra.

    Jayarava

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  4. Vinodh RajanSeptember 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM

    Great Thanks !

    I recently updated by Uniscribe Dll (for Windows XP) to enable Sinhala and Tibetan.

    The Mantra display is perfect !

    V

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