"Significantly, the Tibetan language still holds monopoly on the objects, where the mantra, om mani padme hum, is written. This is the most mysterious and yet ubiquitous mantra of Tibet, repeated universally, hundreds and thousands of times a day, even today. Uncannily similar to Pali script, it is carved or painted on boulders, rocks, stone slabs, doors, walls and even hill slopes and mountain passes.

Swami Pranavananda wrote, 'Tibetans assign certain colours to each letter of the mantra and they believe that the utterance of this six-syllable formula extinguishes rebirth in the six worlds of gods, men, titans, animals, hells and infernal hells, and secures Nirvana.'"

--from Here Be Yaks by Manosi Lahiri

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