Category Archives: Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Protection Symbols: What Guards You, and How It Works

Search “symbols of protection” and you get the same list on thirty sites. The Hamsa. The Evil Eye. The Ankh. The Viking rune. The Egyptian scarab. These are fine. They are also someone else’s symbols. Tibetan protection symbols are different. Not because they are more powerful. Because they work on a different logic. The logic […]

Om Mani Padme Hum Meaning: What Six Syllables Do to a Body

You have seen the six syllables on a bracelet. You have heard them in a meditation track. You might have wondered what they actually mean. The dictionary answer exists. “The Jewel in the Lotus.” That is the one every search result gives you. It is correct in the way a street address is correct. It […]