It is written in the Mahayana Sutras that Avalokiteshvara gave his mantra to the Buddha himself, and Buddha in turn granted him the special and noble task of helping all beings in the universe toward buddhahood. At this moment all the gods rained flowers on them, the earth shook, and the air rang with the sound OM MANI PADME HUM HRIH.
In the words of the poem:
Avalokiteshvara is like the moon Whose cool light puts out the burning fires of samsara In its rays the night-flowering lotus of compassion Opens wide its petals.
TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING
SOGYAL RINPOCHE
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