Wood mala
About this Mala:
This traditional simple wooden mala is handmade in California by a Tibetan Buddhist monk, with 8mm beads in either blond wood or dark brown wood.
Healing Properties:
Wood bead are believed to represent creativity and liberty, and often are used for meditation, prayer, and yoga practices. Natural wood beads are porous, allowing essential oils to be easily absorbed into the bead for any healing fragrance to be added.
How to Use the Mala?
Traditionally, malas are used for keeping count while reciting, chanting, or mentally repeating a mantra or the name or names of a deity. In Tibetan Buddhism, malas, or garlands of prayer beads, come as a string of 108 beads (plus one for the “guru bead”, around which the other 108 beads turn like the planets around the sun).
Mala for a Good Cause:
The money from the sale of these malas goes to support the education, clothing, food, emergency medical needs of the monks at Sera Monastery in India.