MANTRA · Embedded Practice
The turning core carries an inscribed mantra,
not as text to be displayed, but as a form of embedded repetition.
Because this is sacred language, accuracy matters. Each inscription is verified through a multi-teacher review process, with textual cross-checking by a council of 60 Geshe and Khenpo scholars, trained within the lineage of the Serta Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy, one of the world’s most respected centres for traditional Buddhist study.
All mantras used here are drawn from centuries-old canonical lineages, preserved without alteration. They are not rewritten, adapted, or modernised, only carefully transferred into inscription form with precise fidelity.
INSCRIBED · TURNING CORE
Across contemplative traditions, mantra functions less as meaning and more as rhythm, a way attention is gathered, steadied, and returned through repetition. Each mantra is associated with a distinct vow-intention, reflecting orientations of compassion, wisdom, protection, or resolve.
For this reason, the inscriptions used here are not interchangeable: 15 mantras, each aligned with a distinct vow. When translated into contemporary experience, these vow-intentions are expressed through eight experiential states, not as promises of outcome, but as points of entry into practice. Here, the mantra is not something you are asked to recite or believe.
It remains present through touch and movement, allowing the practice to meet the state you are in, rather than impose one upon you. The words may remain unread. The repetition remains.
STATES · Eight Ways Practice Is Entered
Each mantra inscribed within a Henrrison turning core is traditionally linked to a distinct vow — an orientation of compassion, wisdom, protection, or resolve.
Rather than presenting fifteen separate paths, these vow-intentions are translated here into eight experiential states.
They do not describe outcomes to be achieved, but ways practice is entered, supported, and sustained.
Each state gathers several mantra lineages that share a common direction of practice. There is no hierarchy between them.
No state is better than another.
Each reflects a moment in which practice begins.
How vow-intentions are translated into lived states
FROM MANTRA TO STATE
Each mantra carries a distinct vow-intention, which is expressed here as a state — not to promise an outcome, but to offer a way practice can meet you
WISDOM
Seeing clearly · Knowing where to stand
See Things Clearly — Manjushri–inspired
Orientation toward discernment, clarity, and cutting through confusion.
PROTECTION
Safe to continue · Held enough to proceed
Safe to Take the Next Step — Green Tara–inspired
Grounded Again — Medicine Buddha–inspired
Held & Protected — White Umbrella Mother–inspired
Sustained Support — Long-Life Buddha–inspired
This state reflects vows that stabilise, protect, and allow continuation without forcing strength.
COMPASSION
Not abandoned · Okay to be here
In Need of Comfort — Avalokiteshvara–inspired
Not Abandoned — Ksitigarbha–inspired
Okay for Today — Amitabha–inspired
A state in which practice is entered through gentleness, presence, and care.
PURITY
Beginning again · Releasing what no longer serves
Beginning Again — Vajrasattva–inspired
Cutting Through — Mahakala–inspired
Holding On — Vajrapani–inspired
This state concerns purification, resolve, and the capacity to continue
without being defined by what has passed.
POWER
Still here · Able to remain
Still Here — Padmasambhava–inspired
Holding On — Vajrapani–inspired
Cutting Through — Mahakala–inspired
Power here does not mean domination,
but the ability to remain present and unshaken.
ABUNDANCE
Enough · Shared support
Enoughness — Yellow Jambhala–inspired
Shared Load — Zakhi Lhamo–inspired
A state oriented toward circulation, support, and sufficiency
rather than accumulation.
ATTRACTION
Natural pull · Resonance without effort
Natural Magnetism — Kurukulla–inspired
This state reflects attraction as resonance —
a drawing together that does not rely on force.
