padne

Updated: May 28, 2025

Throneless and childless, the Gyalpo has given himself up to religion. From a pole, forty feet long, on the terrace floats a broad streamer of equal length, completely covered with Aum mani padne hun, and he has surrounded himself with lamas, who conduct nearly ceaseless services in the sanctuary. The attainment of merit, as his creed leads him to understand it, is his one aim in life.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - Among the Tibetans