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new tattoo, "om mani padme hum" in stylized Phags-pa script. The neo-Mongolian/Tibetan Phags-pa script was devised as a uniformed style by the Tibetan Lama ‘Gro-mgon Chos-rgyal', during the regime of the Great Kublai Khan 1260-1294. Phags-pa was also known as the new Mongolian script called Horyig in Tibetan. This was imperially imposed as a national script of the Mongol empire of the Yuan dynasty 1271-1368 encompassing all of China. This particular Phags-pa script style used by Tashi to represent the famous Mani mantra of compassion, originates in 1348. This was discovered scribed on stone tablets at Juyonguan in China, located at the nearest section of the Great Wall to Beijing. Only fragments of this beautiful form of Phags-pa style survives today, great effort and research were made to resurrect the Mani mantra to a correct representation in this rare script style, much due to the guidance of Andrew West, who is an expert in ancient scripts of the Far East. The Phags-pa script bears some resemblance to Tibetan but differs distinctly in that it is written vertically downwards in columns running from left to right, much like Mongolian. Units are often formed of several characters that are separated by spaces. From top to bottom the Phags-pa script reads om ma ni pad me hum.

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