Landscape Mantra

I stumbled on this recently. A mantra marked out in Tibetan letters on the side of a hill near the town of Zhongdian in Yunan Province, China. The letters look to be 10-20 metres tall.

The mantra is Manñjuśrī's

oṃ aḥ ra pa tsa na dhīḥ


The Chinese text is 松赞林寺 which apparently translates as "Sumtseling Monastery". Nearby is an Avalokiteśvara mantra.

Earlier I posted another Google map of the Avalokiteśvara mantra carved into a frozen lake.