Tibetan Buddhist RARE FRAGRANT GENUINE SANDALWOOD 7 - 8mm WRIST MALA NEPAL

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Tibetan Buddhist RARE GENUINE AROMATIC 7 - 8mm SANDALWOOD WRIST MALA India/Nepal
traditional sandalwood Tibetan Buddhist style wrist mala
PLEASE NOTE:
tassel colors & textures may vary
27 or 28 beads, plus the guru bead
Sandalwood is considered to be of the padma (
lotus)
group and attributed to
Amitabha Buddha
. Sandalwood scent is believed to transform one's desires and maintain a person's alertness while in
meditation
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8 1/4" around the OUTSIDE, inside measurement smaller - loose on my 6 1/4" wrist, which is unusually small, but does not fall over my hand
suitable for larger wrists
beads are 8mm wide, 5-7mm in height, typical of wooden beads
because these are genuine natural sandalwood, they will not have the very strong fragrance gained by infusing wood with sandalwood oil
sandalwood is protected world-wide; these are from a sandalwood tree farm
For more information about genuine sandalwood, please see below
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True sandalwoods
Sandalwoods are medium-sized
hemiparasitic trees. Notable members of this group are Indian sandalwood (
Santalum album
and Australian sandalwood (
Santalum spicatum
). Others in the genus species have fragrant wood. These are found in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Australia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands. In India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka it is called Chandan.
Although sandalwood trees in India and Nepal are government-owned and their harvest is controlled, many trees are illegally cut down. Sandalwood oil prices have risen to ,000–1,500 per kg recently.
Sandalwood leaf
Producing commercially valuable sandalwood with high levels of fragrance oils, requires
Santalum
trees to be a minimum of eight years old, but at least fourteen years is preferred. Australia is the largest producer of Santalum album, the majority grown around Kununurra, Western Australia.
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