Singapore's Kong Meng San monastery is doing an Om Mani Padme Hum chanting exercise, where you can chant om mani padme hum and register the count here: kmspks.org/registration...
The count currently stands at 409,428
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་
Magu's story in the 神仙传 contains one of the most wonderful descriptions of deep time there is:
“接待以來，已見東海三為桑田，向到蓬萊，水又淺於往昔，會時略半也，豈將復還為陵陸乎。”
（tr. below from Campany's _to live as long as heaven and earth_)
In #ChineseMythology, Magu brewed wine with mushrooms by the side of the Crimson Pearl River to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West on 3rd Mar.
It's common for people to give a statue of her to women as a birthday gift.
According to folkBeliefs, 12 different flowerGods corresponding to 12 months of the year, each of whom was a real person.
There are both female & male versions. e.g., the Goddess of apricot flowers in February is YangGuifei.
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#ChineseFolklore
If you want to harvest ginseng fruit, you must tie a boundary with red silk thread, yellow hemp thread, and blue agate bead string at the edge of the ginseng fruit field. This will prevent the awakened ginseng fruit from escaping
#ChineseMythology
若人欲了知，三世一切佛，
應觀法界性，一切唯心造。
If people want to really know
All Buddhas of all times,
They should contemplate the nature of the cosmos:
All is but mental construction.
namu kanzeon bosatsu always, but, today, specifically the emanation of bato kannon, bato myō-ō, who represents compassionate wrath and protects those those reborn in the animal realm (chikushōdō), a realm characterized by stupidity and servitude.
Singapore's Kong Meng San monastery is doing an Om Mani Padme Hum chanting exercise, where you can chant om mani padme hum and register the count here: kmspks.org/registration...
The count currently stands at 409,428
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་
this book is wonderful: there is a CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE WRITTEN IN TANGUT AND CLASSICAL CHINESE
FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER MESSAGE IN TANGUT
BEST OF ALL THE BACK COVER (of the physical copies) HAS AN OM MANI PADME HUM INSCRIPTION ON IT x.com/vauzhao/stat...
Back in September 2019, when the world was a very different place, my friend Sergey Dmitriev started to organize a festschrift in honour of the 90th birthday of M. V. Sofronov (b. 11th October 1929), and last week it was finally published as Тангутская и китайская филология. К юбилею М. В. Софронова
An interesting fan painting from the Qing Dynasty, titled "The Picture of Beauty("Pink Lady") & Skeletons".
One side is a maid painting, with a group of women chatting leisurely and comfortably. The other side is a skeleton perspective of them.
may the unknown man be reborn in the pure land om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་
Singapore's Kong Meng San monastery is doing an Om Mani Padme Hum chanting exercise, where you can chant om mani padme hum and register the count here: kmspks.org/registration...
The count currently stands at 409,428
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་
