Today is the day Chinese Buddhists set aside for commemorating the bodhisattva Manjushri. It is hence a good opportunity to speak of the custom of "Blowing on meat" 吹肉,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjushri…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjushri…
2. The eight-syllable mantra of Manjushri is "oṃ abīra hūṃ khaṃ cara", or as written in Chinese characters. 唵阿味羅吽佉左洛; sometimes 嗡阿咪惹吽嘎恰罗 or 唵 阿末啰吽 却浙啰liaotuo.com/fozhou/wenzhan…
baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%96%87… and fodizi.net/fojing/zhouyu/…
baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%96%87… and fodizi.net/fojing/zhouyu/…
3. When eating meat is unavoidable some buddhists recite the mantra over the meat,& then blow on it. This would allow the animal that died to produce the meat to enter a better rebirth 往生. Some say it shld be recited 7 times. & liaotuo.com/fozhou/wenzhan…
Nonetheless, as the monk in the above video warns, such a mantra does not give one a license to eat meat rather it is the least a buddhist could do when eating meat is unavoidable.
5. some make a point of reciting the mantra wherever meat is sold, eg to recite said mantra over the flesh, for the welfare of the animals killed. Similarly, the mantra shld be recited in graveyards; it allows the hungry ghosts &c, to get a good rebirth liaotuo.com/fozhou/wenzhan…
6. ; Water over which the mantra has been recited 108 times has healing powers; reciting 7 times over water and drinking it 1st thing in the morning would protect you from disasters for the day; it is also an antidote to poison fodizi.net/fojing/zhouyu/…
7. Here are two videos of the mantra chanted:
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No. 2 is a version of the mantra which adds the syllables 芒梭哈 "Mang suo ha" at the end.
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No. 2 is a version of the mantra which adds the syllables 芒梭哈 "Mang suo ha" at the end.
