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Marika Echachis Swan - Deep In Our Bones (woodblock print, 2018)
“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.”— Tibetan Proverb
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
They (great bodhisattvas) cultivate practice for an unutterably long time, but are ineffably enlightened in a single instant…
Avatamsaka Sutra - Flower Ornament Scripture 901
Note on the image: Amitayus is the sambhogakaya form of Amitaba. He is visualized in princely attire. His practice is for “long life.” Amitayus translates as “Infinite Life.”
The Tibetan Amitāyus mantra reads:
oṃ ā ma ra ṇi dzi wan te ye svā hā
Tibetan script: ཨོཾ༌ཨཱ༌མ༌ར༌ནི༌ཛི༌ཝན༌ཏེ༌ཡེ༌སྭཱ༌ཧཱ།
This would correspond to the Sanskrit:
oṃ amaraṇi jīvantaye svāhā
ओं अमरणि जीवन्तये स्वाहा