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Tendai Ohira Juzu Japanese lignum vitae wood Prayer beads Kyoto Buddhism Zen dhyāna
Material : lignum vitae wood, Silk cord (not stretch)
Size :
Head bead : about 25mm
Main beads : about 16mm
Disciple beads : about 8-9mm
Tassel balls : about 17mm
Length : about 30cm
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.
Handmade in Kyoto, JAPAN
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.
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.