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Re: kate buks

From: mcrware!jejones@uunet.UU.NET (James Jones)
Date: 19 Feb 90 18:22:14 GMT
Subject: Re: kate buks
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
References: <1111581@mac.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: mcrware!jejones@uunet.UU.NET (James Jones)
Summary: concur on Sanskrit


In article <1111581@mac.Dartmouth.EDU> Julian.West@MAC.DARTMOUTH.EDU writes:
>> I think om mani padme hum is something like "hail the jewel in the lotus"?
>I haven't a clue. How would you find something like that out?

Mario Pei, in one of his books (I don't remember which one--I read everything
of his I could find back in junior high) gives the translation as "Hail, jewel
in the lotus.  Amen."  (I think.)

	James Jones