mantra

Examples of mantra in the following topics:

• Vedic and Upanishadic Periods

  • The Mantra language texts: This period includes both the mantra and prose language of the Atharvaveda (Paippalada and Shaunakiya), the Rigveda Khilani, the Samaveda Samhita, and the mantras of the Yajurveda.
  • The Samhita prose texts: This period includes the Brahmana part ('commentary' on mantras and ritual) of the Black Yajurveda and corresponds with the painted grey-ware (PGW) culture from c. 900 BCE.

• Offerings

  • In the Hindu Yagya tradition, offerings of ghee (clarified butter), grains, spices, and wood placed into a fire are made along with the chanting of sacred mantras .

• Buddhist Stupas

  • The Tree of Life, a wooden pole covered with gems and mantras, is an important element of every stupa and is placed in the stupa's central channel during an initiation ceremony, where participants' most powerful wishes are stored.

• Income Distribution

  • Occupy Wall Street's mantra, "We are the 99%" points to what protesters see as starkly unequal distribution of income and wealth between the top 1% of earners and the rest of the population.

• Prayers

  • Hindus chant mantras or perform yoga as a meditative practice .

• Art of Pure Land Buddhism

  • Thus, scrolls of Amida would be hung in the room of people who were dying, who were believed to be saved by chanting the Amida mantra.

• Art of Esoteric Buddhism

  • Shingon Buddhist practice is based on various rituals, including the chanting of mantras, puja, hand gestures (mudras), and meditation through visualization of mandalas.

• The Goals of a Business

  • For example, Alibaba, a Chinese Internet venture, strives to operate in the zone that Clinton calls "double-bottom line capitalism. " The emerging new mantra is to create social progress as well as create profits.

• Meditation

  • Meditation may also involve repeating a mantra and closing one's eyes.

• The Vedas

  • Each Veda was further divided in two sections: the Brahmanas, instructions for religious rituals, and the Samhitas, mantras or hymns in praise of various deities.