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Where does “ཨོཾ” come from?
ཨོཾ (Tibetan) comes from Sanskrit ॐ, from Sanskrit ओ — ow, ouch.
ཨོཾ
(Tibetan): om, aum, omkar
Definitions
om, aum, omkar
Ancestry of “ཨོཾ”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Sanskrit
ॐ
om; aum; the sacred syllable and mantra in...
2
Sanskrit
ओ
ow, ouch
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