Buddhist Mala Beads
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Lotus Seed Wrist Mala (Prayer Beads) Brown 18 Beads List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $9.99  |
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Lotus seed represents purity and the 18 Bead Lotus Seed Wrist Malas are used by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Lotus Seed Wrist Mala - Brown -18 Prayer Beads are meditation tools used for balance in your everyday life, spiritual life, emotional life... |
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Lapis Lazuli 108 Bead Mala with Om Handpainted in Gold on the Guru Bead List Price: $69.99 Sale Price: $48.99 |
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Lapis Lazuli Mala - 108 Prayer Beads with a Guru bead handpainted with "om" in gold - is a meditation tool used for balance in your everyday life, emotional life, spiritual life. Mala's have been used for centuries to count one's breath and/or prayers during meditation... |
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Lotus Seed Mala (Prayer Beads) Red 108 Beads List Price: $39.99 Sale Price: $29.99 |
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Lotus seed represents purity and the 108 Bead Lotus Seed Malas are used by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Lotus Seed Mala - Red -108 Prayer Beads are meditation tools used for balance in your everyday life, spiritual life, emotional life... |
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Lungta Tibetan 108 Beads Meditation and Yoga Om Mala Sale Price: $16.98 |
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Tibetan 108 Beads water buffalo OM Mala Approximately 8 mm beads with matching Guru Bead and 100% Cotton Tassel. If you look closely at the picture you will find each of the 108 beads are hand etched with OM symbol... |
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Black Pave Crystal Buddhist Beads Bracelet List Price: $26.95 Sale Price: $32.95 |
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This One of a kind Black Pave Crystal Buddhist Beads Bracelet with adjustable Macrame Strap |
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Dharma Beads: Making and Using Your Own Buddhist Malas List Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $24.92 |
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The practice of meditating with Buddhist malas has been a tradition for thousands of years. With so many people searching for spiritual expression and Buddhism being so popular, its no wonder that a rosary from a 2500 year-old religion has become the hottest trend in contemporary culture... |
Chenrezig Thangka
Chenrezig is a form of Avalokiteshvara. Chenrezig is also known as the Buddha of Compassion or 4 armed Avalokiteshvara. Of all the deities in Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Chenrezig, is one of the most celebrated. He is the lord endowed with complete illumination, who refrains from entering the blissful state of nirvana to remain here below and save the creatures of the earth. This devotion to the salvation of others emphasizes the profound compassion this bodhisattva represents. In the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon of enlightened beings, Chenrezig, Avalokiteshvara, is renowned as the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
Avalokiteshvara, Chenrezig, is visualized in many forms, with various numbers of faces and arms, and various colors and ornaments. The radiant white Buddha form representing purity and power of the enlightened mind's loving kindness and compassion is illustrated above and at the very top of this page. He sits on a lotus and the flat disc of the moon, with another moon disk behind him, reflecting his total purity. Two of his four arms are joined in the prayer position holding the wish fulfilling gem. In his other left hand he holds a lotus flower and in his other right hand, a crystal mala (rosary), which he is using to count the repetitions of his mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus, which liberates all beings from suffering. He wears the silks and ornaments of a Bodhisattva, representing all his special qualities, and the soft skin of an antelope over his shoulder, symbolizing his complete freedom from violence. He smiles with deep understanding, love and compassion as his eyes look upon all beings. The four arms and hands signify the four immeasurable: immeasurable loving kindness, immeasurable compassion, immeasurable joy, and immeasurable equanimity.
Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Boundless Compassion, is the very embodiment and realization of the four immeasurable. The four immeasurable are the vehicles through which Chenrezig benefits beings. "The first two, the inner arms, have palms joined at the heart, holding a sky-blue, and wish fulfilling jewel." This symbolizes that in whatever way Chenrezig manifests to benefit beings, the quality of Chenrezig's mind is never separate from the all pervasive primordial wisdom. In the outer right hand, Chenrezig is holding crystal beads and moving them the way we use a mala to count mantras. This symbolizes that there is not one moment when Chenrezig does not benefit beings. Like the steady movement of counting the beads, Chenrezig is continuously benefiting sentient beings and turning the wheel of enlightened activity. In the outer left hand, Chenrezig holds a lotus flower. This symbolizes that in benefiting sentient beings, Chenrezig manifests in whatever forms are necessary in accordance with the mental capacities, circumstances, and aptitudes of sentient beings. Chenrezig may appear in any of the different realms, such as the hell realm or the hungry ghost realm. However Chenrezig may appear, he remains free from any of the samsaric stains of the various realms, the way a lotus flower growing in a swamp appears free of the stain of the mud. The left hand of Chenrezig, holding the flower, symbolizes that stainlessness. All the various features of this image have meaningful connections to the wonderful qualities of Chenrezig, and by focusing on these details as we visualize the image in the meditation, we can gradually awaken our own awareness of those same qualities in ourselves.
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