Mani Stone in short is “Mani”, it is a stone plate, rock, inscribed with the six syllables mantra of Avalokiteshvara, whom is one of the “Eight Bodhisattvas”, ‘Om’ – ‘ma’ – ‘ni’ – ‘pad’ – ‘me’ – ‘hum’, hence the name “Mani stone”.
Sershul county, which is located in the northwest corner of Kham neighbouring Amdo, has the longest Mani Stones wall across the whole Tibetan plateau; This Mani Stones Wall is about 1750 meters long, and 3.5 meters in height; It is embedded with more than 3,000 stone statues and over 6,000 Buddhist scriptures including “Kanjur” and “Tengyur” – the two Tibetan collection of commentaries to the Buddhist teachings,
—-Photos are provided and taken by Mr. Fu Qing
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