SHERAB CHAMMA (Extended Mantra) OM MA WA MA DE MA HI MO HA E MA HO MA YE RU PA YE TA DU DU SO HA

SHERAB CHAMMA (Extended Mantra) OM MA WA MA DE MA HI MO HA E MA HO MA YE RU PA YE TA DU DU SO HA ~ Chant by Geshe Yongdong SHERAB CHAMMA Wisdom Loving Mother OM MA WA MA DE MA HI MO HA E MA HO MA YE RU PA YE TA DU DU SO HA This Bonpo mantra is for generating compassion and loving kindness. Sherab Chamma, the Wisdom Loving Mother, is the embodiment of loving compassion. As an enlightened deity, she manifests in many different forms according to the needs of practitioners. She is the great mother who gives love, wisdom and healing. She is also known as the mother of all Buddhas. She is the Bon equivalent of the Buddhist savior Tara. Sherab Chamma, the Wisdom Loving Mother, is the embodiment of loving compassion. As an enlightened deity, Chamma manifests in many different types according to the needs of practitioners. In Bön tradition, Chamma is one of the "4 Main Sugatas,” which means that the Goddess belongs to those 4 "Peaceful Deities,” who inspire and guide the spiritual development of humankind. The 4 Sugatas are: 1) Sherab Chamma, the perfection of wisdom; 2) Shenlha Ökar, the god of wisdom or Sambhogakaya Buddha. Sambhogakaya symbolizes the Buddha-activity of the higher Boddhisattvas. He often is described as "life-giving", because he is the one, inspiring the desire for attaining Buddha-nature in all living beings. 3) Sangpo Bumtri, the god of creation, also called Srid pa; and 4) Shenrab Miwo, the world´s teacher or Nirmanakaya Buddha. ______________________________________________ Sherab Chamma Heart Mantra meaning on syllable, by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: "OM MA WA MA TE MA HI MO HA E MA HO MA YE RU PA YE TA DHU DHU SO HA.” ཨཱོྂ་མ་བ་མ་དེ་མ་ཧི་མོ་ཧ་ཨེ་མ་ཧོ་མ་ཡེ་རུ་པ་ཡེ་ཏ་འདུ་འདུ་སྭཧཱ། OM means the great, all knowing, loving mother Chamma; MA means protection from enemies; WA means protection from curses; MA means protection from infertility; DE means protection from nagas; MA means protection from wrong views; HI means protection from making harmful errors; MO means protection from death; HA means protection from negative planetary forces; E means of enlightened activity: powerful, peaceful, increasing, wrathful; MA means represents the source of the teachings; HO means 4 doorkeepers of the mandala on each level; MA means her 108 manifestations that inspire certain sutric and tantric spiritual teachings; YE means her 360 manifestations that inspire other sutric and tantric teachings; RU means 5,500 manifestations manifest in: seeing, accumulation, preparation, meditation; PA means Her endless external manifestations; YE means the primordial single root of the countless manifestations; TA means Chamma who is the tamer of the powerful beings and powerful realms; DHU means Chamma of manifestation; DHU means Chamma of the Bodhisattvas of the 10 bhumis; SO means the aspect of Chamma beyond: the 3 times, appearance and emptiness, existence or non-existence, eternalism or nihilism; HA means the base of manifestation of all the root sutric deities. ~ ~ ~ May all sentient beings benefit.