Buddhists place om at the beginning of prayer as well in as most other, as a syllable om is considered holy in Esoteric Buddhism.
In Buddhist texts of East Asian provenance, om is often written as the Chinese character 唵 (pinyin ǎn) or 嗡 (pinyin wēng).
A key distinction should be made here between Buddhism as it arose in Nepal, and Buddhism after the migration of the teachings to Tibet under the guidance of Padmasambhava. In its original form, Buddhism in Nepal was characterised mainly by types of mindfulness meditation and did not involve the chanting of om or of mantras.[7] Tibetan Buddhism, with heavy Hindu influence and merger with Bon Shamanism, is now characterised by the AH[clarification needed] bija, which