Om Mani Peme Hungby ~wdeleon

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Way old piece of Gadget Hackwrench fanart I created back in 2004, using Paint Shop Pro 7. This was before I knew enough to use antialiased line art, and long, long before I had a tablet... I'm pretty sure this was done as a pencil on paper original, scanned on a flatbed scanner, and then inked with a mouse. I'm glad those days are over...

Anyway, what's this image mean? Well, it's Buddhist symbology. Lotus flowers represent the unfolding of enlightenment in the way they grow - rising out of the mud and water they sprout from, and emerging clean and undirtied. The symbols at the top are the Tibetian script representing the phrase "Om Mani Peme Hung", the mantra of Chenrezig, which you can read about at: [link]