Open AccessThe Om mani padme hum, the Platonic Soul, the Tao, and the Greek Cross are an Architectural Tool
Author(s) -
Tine Kurent
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.259
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2350-417X
pISSN - 0567-784X
DOI - 10.4312/an.22.0.3-12
Subject(s) - prayer , arithmetic , irrational number , mathematics , literature , sanskrit , symbol (formal) , art , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , theology
The plan of Borobuclur conforms with two concentric octagrams. The lines of the scheme, their lengths, and their intersections, determine the articulation of the Borobudur composition, i. e. the sizes of every part and of the whole as well. The sizes of Borobudur are modular. Their modular multiples are Pell numbers, the ratios of which rationally approximate the irrational proportions in octagram If Borobudur numbers are located in the Peli number-pattern and connected with a line, the syllable OM, written in Sanskrit, appears. The word octagram is only the modern European name of the symbol of OM. The prayer OM MANI PADME HUM, translated as 'the JEWEL and the LOTOS', is a good description of octagram