A set of prayer beads used for keeping count of the repetition of prayers. Used in Hindu, Tantric, and Tibetan traditions. Similar to the Roman Catholic Rosary beads.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...