Seed Syllable Om White, on Dupion Silk Canvas 8x10

The Magical Display of the Arts and the Friends of Lama Tharchin at Pema Osel Ling retreat center, have designed and crafted these hand-painted seed syllables on dupion silk over a stretched canvas frame. This seed syllable "OM" is painted in radiant gold paint on ivory colored dupion silk, stretched on to a 5/8" thick frame, and can be displayed on it's own or as part of a triptych with the "AH" and "HUNG" seed syllables. Canvas is 8"X 10."

The calligraphy of these seed syllables was created by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, and is in the style of the Repkong tradition of Tibetan Nyingmapa yogis.

Seed Syllables are the unborn natural sound of dharmara, the nature of reality is great emptiness, free from dualism. Deities are actually wisdom, and wisdom is never based on dualism. All deities are connected to an individual seed syllable, called heart – essences seed syllables.
All ordinary syllables from which we form words are connected to an object or a dualistic thought. Whatever ordinary words we can imagine turns our minds toward material or mental objects. This continues without conclusion, never reaching a point of exhaustion. All speech actually originates from and concludes in dharmata. Wisdom seed syllables, however, remain free from dualism, they are never connected to any finite object. Thus it is wisdom sound that has the natural capacity to benefit and penetrate beings.

OM AH HUNG

OM, AH, HUNG are the seed syllables of all wisdom beings and Buddhas. Together they are the stamp of wisdom form, wisdom speech and wisdom mind and make up wisdom form. When one uses visualization in meditation practice, the three places of any deity are visualized with these corresponding seed syllables; a whites OM at the forehead, and a red AH at the throat, a blue HUNG at the heart center.