Back in Feb 2009 I was intrigued by a complex seed-syllable seen carved on the side of a Japanese stūpa. I could see the Siddhaṃ elements but wanted to understand the context. Eventually, with a little luck, I managed to identify the bīja as stryi...

Seed-syllable oṃ in Siddhaṃ I upgraded the oṃ page. I don't whether to be pleased that my calligraphy and other methods have improved, or horrified at how poor some of my earlier work was. Hopefully the whole site will gradually be brought up...

tadyathāMy Jayarava's Rave blog post today is about tadyathā especially in relation to the Heart Sutra mantra. http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2009/10/tadyatha-in-heart-sutra.html

In the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats Jeff Bridges character is twice seen wearing a singlet with a large Siddhaṃ oṃ on it - see left. See also my version of oṃ on Flickr.

The Visible Mantra Facebook page has seen a massive increase in fans recently. After sitting around 50-60 for most of the year suddenly there are more than 500 heading for 600! I did send out an invitation to friends, but I suspect a lot of the...