| "Whichever mantra one recites, the recitation should | | | | Like Hindu tantras Buddhist tantras also apply mantras |
| be divorced of the faults such as reciting it too | | | | for every ritual and there is no difference in both |
| quickly, to clearly, too unclearly, reversing the long | | | | regarding potentialities of mantras and formations of |
| and short accents, being interrupted by other | | | | mantras, even some syllables are common to both. |
| conversations, and the mind being | | | | For example, Om which is a Vadic syllable is |
| distracted."-Yamantaka Tantra | | | | considered in Buddhist tantras with having the same |
| In Vajrayana Tantrism mantras are the substratum | | | | potential as in Vedas. It is most sacred syllable and in |
| of all kinds of tantrik yoga sadhana. Deity yoga is | | | | mantra sastra is said to be joint or setu for all the |
| none other than mantra yoga. Mantras are said to be | | | | mantras. Without it all mantras are impotent. This |
| deities itself. Generally mantra is considered as a sutra | | | | syllable is so much sacred for Hinduism, Buddhism also |
| in which potential of a deity is hidden. Mantras are | | | | in Jainism because of its spiritual quality; |
| arrangements of specific syllables which form a body | | | | metaphysically it is the essence of the existence. It is |
| of a sound and considered to be indescribable. Some | | | | this very prana, since it moves chanting OUM. It is |
| mantras are of the nature of statements in which | | | | realized by Buddha too in his deep trance that is why |
| some secret meanings are hidden while some are | | | | from the very beginning it is adored by Buddhists as |
| meaningless and are only sound-forms. For example- | | | | most holy and sacred. Regarding mantras and its |
| Om mani padme hum the most popular mantra is an | | | | nature there is no confusion in Hindu tantras and |
| statement, which says that there is an union in | | | | Buddhist tantras. Difference lies in the path, in the |
| between mani+padma i.e. vajra and padma. While | | | | implementations of mantras in the sadhana. Path of |
| mantra like - Om ah hum is only sound-form, having | | | | Hindu tantras are adoration of deity and mantra while |
| no meaning to be known through reasoning, though it | | | | path of Buddhist tantras is to conquer the natural |
| has secret meaning which could be known only | | | | forces through various Tantrik means whether it is |
| through the mantra sadhana. | | | | mantra sadhana or deity yoga. |