Dharma Haven has a rich description of the Tibetan Buddhist prayer:
Om Mani Padme Hong

A Late Night Prayer

In a December 23, 2008 note in On Bluebirds' Wings, this came out about what I understood from some Buddhist teachings:

As I practice the teachings that so enlarged my heart to meet the sights my eyes had seen traveling so much as we did, the teachings of the Tibetan Buddhists, to reach out with my heart and compassion to every element in all that is, in the whole universe, known and unknown, and imagine in every aspect of every element, the heart of compassion, receiving my recognition and honoring, and sending back ten thousand thousands of blessings, then the twisting anguish of the suffering that is behind every corner, under the sunglasses, inside the windows, and too many wheres, that anguish dissolves into a rich, fully connected, acceptance and presence.

John Died to the Sound of Buddhists Chanting at his Bedside

Today is the day bloggers are asked to unite to blog about AIDS. In honor of this day, I wrote the story of meeting John, a man in the Washington DC area, who I met at a Tibetan Buddhist prayer park, who was living and dying with AIDS. You can read the story in my Essays on the Ordinary blog.