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These days we have more options than rocks and walls. This Mani Bumper Sticker came from Glimpse of Tibet, a Tibetan handicrafts store in Northampton, Massachusetts. ![]() From this Web page you can download several different types of digital images of the mani mantra, including high-resolution versions that are suitable for printing and framing for display in your home, workplace or meditation space, and smaller versions that are optimized for use on Web pages and e-mail messages. You can use one on the background of your computer screen. The High resolution versions can be reduced for use in print media. All the images below this point on the page were developed for Dharma Haven, and you are welcome to use them for any respectful purpose.
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We hope you will also look at some of our other pages, focusing on various aspects of the mantra and its meaning. One good place to start would be our page on Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara). The mantra is said to bring his benevolent gaze to us and those we wish to help: Here's a page that describes the mantra, how it's pronounced and written, and some the many different explanations of what it means:
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The images shown here can be copied ("downloaded") to your computer. Click on the image you want to save with the right mouse button, and select the "Save Image as:" or "Save Picture as:" function from the menu.
Om Mani Padme Hum Hri Carved on slate by a craftsman in Nepal. The background in the photograph is an American Navaho rug.
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Make your Own Mani Images
[Please note: Most Web prowsers cannot display these images.You will need to download them ('Save Link As ...' or 'Save Target As ...') and use a graphics viewer or image editor that can handle Photoshop files (.PSD files). Also, please be sure that when you save the file it gets a .psd extension and not .htm or .psd.htm ] If you download one of these images, you can
modify it
in many different ways using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements,
Adobe PhotoDelux, or any other graphics editor that can work with the
layers
in Photoshop's PSD files. Some editors that are available free can do
this.
For Windows machines, the
GIMP Windows Port and Oriens
Enhancer should both be able to do this. Similar free software is
available
for other operating systems. The image has the following five layers:
Changing the Background
(Please note that the background you see in the composite image is not given by the so-called 'background' layer, which is just the bottom layer in the stack.) For example, to make the background a solid color, you can use the same color for the two end points of the fill gradient. The programs include many different types of fill gradients, and ways of modifying them. Changing the Mantra Colors
Gradient Fill Layer 1 changes only the
background, and
Gradient Fill Layer 2 changes only the syllables. Change the background
and the syllables in any way you please. More Effects For some effects, you should forget about the Mani Workshop images and start fresh with one of the "Mani black on white" images.
I have no idea
exactly what I did to create it, and I suspect that any of us could do
better.
Play with it!
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The image in the Books section of a woman turning a large gold Mani wheel is from the cover of Wheel of Great Compassion. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's teaching "Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones," was given at Tibet House in New York in 1984 and published in the volume titled Essence of Buddhism: Teachings at Tibet House. top of page |
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