Jōdo Shinshū 108 beads Turquoise Juzu Prayer Beads

Jōdo Shinshū 108 beads Turquoise Stone Buddhist Prayer Beads

Material : Turquoise, Silk cord
Head bead : about 12mm
Main bead : about 5mm

Handmade in Kyoto, JAPAN

Jōdo Shinshū (浄土真宗, "The True Essence of the Pure Land Teaching"), also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism.

Turquoise is a gemstone that has a meaning and properties of making communication smoother. The power of nature inside can circulate the internal body energy. Besides human relationships, it is used to make people's fortune better. Turquoise is a gemstone that can sense owner's bad energy and bring it back to the right condition.

In Buddhism, according to Bhante Gunaratana this number is reached by multiplying the senses smell, touch, taste, sight, and consciousness by whether the are painful, pleasant or neutral, and then again by whether these are internally generated or externally occurring, and yet again by past, present and future, finally we get 108 feelings.

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.

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