I am pretty sure that the upper mantra is the mantra of Amitayus
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་མ་ར་ཎི་ཛི་ཝ་ནྡི་ཡཧཱ་སྭཱ on the stone more usually written
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་མ་ར་ཎི་ཛི་ཝིན་དཱ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ
Pronounced: om a ma ra ni dzi win da yé swa ha
See the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum for a good discussion of that lower mantra and a picture of a similar stone. It “means” something about a jewel and a lotus, but I guess the meaning is a bit fuzzy and lost to time.
I can read Nagari quite well, and Tibetan generally looks tantalizingly familiar…but not having properly studied it, I can’t do much with it.
The lower mantra is the Mani Mantra:
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་ད་མེ་ཧཱུ
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum
I am pretty sure that the upper mantra is the mantra of Amitayus
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་མ་ར་ཎི་ཛི་ཝ་ནྡི་ཡཧཱ་སྭཱ on the stone more usually written
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་མ་ར་ཎི་ཛི་ཝིན་དཱ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ
Pronounced: om a ma ra ni dzi win da yé swa ha
See the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum for a good discussion of that lower mantra and a picture of a similar stone. It “means” something about a jewel and a lotus, but I guess the meaning is a bit fuzzy and lost to time.
I can read Nagari quite well, and Tibetan generally looks tantalizingly familiar…but not having properly studied it, I can’t do much with it.