27cm Japanese Lignum vitae wood Jade Tendai Juzu Prayer beads Kyoto Buddhism

Description

Item Description
Japanese Lignum-vitae wood & Jade Tendai Ohira Juzu Prayer beads for Man
Materials : Lignum-vitae wood, Jade, Silk cord (not elastic)
Length : about 27cm
Head bead size : (Jade) about 16mm
Main beads size : (Lignum-vitae wood) about 12mm
Handmade in Kyoto, Japan.
Lignum vitae: also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as Pockholz, from trees of the genus Guaiacum.
The name Lignum Vitae is Latin, and means tree of life, or wood of life, which is derived from the tree’s many medicinal uses.
Heartwood color can range from a olive to a dark greenish brown to almost black, sometimes with a reddish hue.
This Prayer beads is Tendai's one. Tendai is a school of Mahayana Buddhism in Japan, a descendant of the Chinese Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school. A center of Japanese Tendai "Enryaku-ji temple" is on Mount Hiei, Northern Kyoto. It's also famous as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In Japan, Buddhists have Prayer beads (Juzu, Nenju). Kyoto is famous as a producing center of Prayer beads.
Prayer beads are a traditional tool used to count the number of times a mantra is recited, breaths while meditating, counting prostrations, or the repetitions of a buddha's name.
※ The color may differ from the actual one depending on the coloration condition of the monitor.
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