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Lama Yeshe in Sweden, 1983
Teachings

Precious Mantras

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Four precious mantras and some of their benefits, which include purification of heavy negative karma created in the past.

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Artwork by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Chenrezig Mantra

Tibetan script of Chenrezig mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM.
Tibetan script of Chenrezig mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM.

Reciting this mantra just once completely purifies the four defeats of breaking the four root vows of self-liberation and the five uninterrupted negative karmas.

By reciting this mantra you achieve the four qualities of being born in the Amitabha Buddha pure land or as a happy transmigratory being. Up to seven generations of that person’s descendants won’t be reborn in the lower realms.


"Just by Seeing" Mantra
OM HANU PHASHA BHARA HE YE SVAHA

Tibetan script of "Just by Seeing" mantra OM HANU PHASHA BHARA HE YE SVAHA

Merely seeing this mantra purifies 100 million eons of negative karma.
This is said by Buddha in the sutra, Pag pa chu lung röl pa’i do.

Lotus Pinnacle of Amoghapasha
OM PADMO USHNISHA VIMALE HUM PHAT

Tibetan script of Lotus Pinnacle of Amoghapasha mantra, OM PADMO USHNISHA VIMALE HUM PHAT.

Whoever sees, hears, remembers, or touches this mantra will be purified of all negativities and gain freedom from rebirth in the lower realms—from the Ksitigarbha Dasacakra Sutra.

Recalling this mantra just once has the power to purify even the five uninterrupted negative karmas. It prevents rebirth in Avici, the heaviest of hells.


Six Syllables of Clairvoyance Mantra
AH AAH SHA SA MA HA

Just by seeing this mantra you will become enlightened.
By seeing these letters, after fifteen days it totally purifies any heavy negative karma created in the past.