White Yak Bone Prayer Beads with Turquoise and Coral

Recycled Yak Bone
Handmade In Nepal
Length: Approx. 17"
Beads: 108
Bead Size: 8mm
Turquoise is known for its ability to protect from outside influences and its ability to dissipate negative energy. Turquoise resonates with the throat chakra.

Red coral quiets emotions and brings inner peace. Red coral resonates with the root chakra. 

The yak bone beads are inlayed with copper, nickel, brass and turquoise and coral. Yaks have played a significant role in Tibetan culture and lifestyle for centuries by being used for transportation of goods, yak hair is used for fabrics and rope, and yak milk is used for cheese and butter. Yak bone represents impermanence and is said to maintain healthy blood circulation.

Malas or Buddhist prayer beads are similar to other prayer beads used in various world religions. Malas are used to keep track while one recites, chants, or mentally repeats a mantra or the name or names of a deity.

Malas are used as a tool to keep count of mantra repetitions. Mantras are spiritual syllables or prayers and are usually repeated many times.In  Buddhism, one mala constitutes 100 recitations of a mantra and each mala or prayer beads have 108 beads.