Tendai Ohira ebony wood Juzu Prayer beads

Tendai Ohira Juzu Japanese ebony wood Prayer beads Kyoto Buddhism Zen dhyāna

Material: Ebony wood, Silk cord (not stretch)

【Size of 30cm】
Head bead: about 18mm
Main beads: about 6×17mm

Length: about 30cm

Handmade in Kyoto, JAPAN

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.

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