ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ།
Vajra Guru Mantra
蓮師金剛上師咒
Guru Rinpoche / Padmasambhava (蓮師)
The Mantra 真言原文
Tibetan Script
ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ།
Romanization
Om Ah Hung Benza Guru Pema Siddhi Hung
Sanskrit
Oṃ Āḥ Hūṃ Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hūṃ
Chinese 漢音
嗡啊吽，班紮，古如，貝瑪，悉地，吽
Meaning 意義
Om Ah Hung: body, speech, mind of all Buddhas. Vajra: indestructible. Guru: teacher. Padma: lotus (Padmasambhava's birth). Siddhi: spiritual accomplishments — ordinary (health, longevity) and supreme (enlightenment). Hung: mind of the Vajrayana — inseparability of space and wisdom.
Ritual Use & Practice 修持法門
The principal mantra of the Nyingma school and all practitioners devoted to Padmasambhava. Recited on the 10th day of each lunar month (Guru Rinpoche Day). Used in Terma practice, Dzogchen retreats, and as a continuous mantra during daily activities. Accumulation of 100 million recitations is considered a major accomplishment.
Background & Significance 背景與意義
The Vajra Guru mantra is the heart mantra of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) and is considered one of the most powerful mantras in Vajrayana Buddhism. Padmasambhava himself explained in a Terma text (the Dakki Gyaden) that the twelve syllables are not merely sounds but contain the entire transmission of the Vajrayana: Om Ah Hung represent the three gates (body, speech, mind) of the Guru; Vajra is the indestructible nature of mind; Guru is the root teacher who embodies all three kayas; Padma is the lotus family of Amitābha (transformation of desire into wisdom); Siddhi is both ordinary attainments and supreme liberation; Hung is the seed of indestructible awareness. The mantra is said to be particularly powerful in this age of degeneration because Padmasambhava specifically designed it to benefit beings of the present era.
At a Glance
- Syllable Count
- 12
- Deity
- Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche)
- Category
- Guru Rinpoche / Padmasambhava (蓮師)
- School Tradition
- nyingma, kagyu
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