Prayer beads

 Many religions in the world have adopted prayer beads as a symbolic way to count the number of repetitions of prayers, chants, and meditations. Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, and Islam all use prayer beads designed according to their religions prayers.

World's religions prayer beads

Buddhism
For the Buddhists, prayer beads are known as "Japa Mala", which are widely used in Mahayana Buddhism and with fewer beads consisting all in all of 108 beads.  The prayer beads of Pure :Land Buddhism is made of 27 beads.  The Chinese call their prayer beads "Shu-Zhu" which means, "counting beads" while it is "Juzu" in Japan.  

There are shorter rosaries used in Buddhism as well, called "prostration rosaries", which are handy when reciting prostrations repetitions.  For those who've seen a statue of Buddha, you might notice Him wearing prayer beads on his neck.  Buddha stayed in Tibet until his death and the Tibetan Buddhists use an imitation of Buddha's prayer beads, which consists of 108 beads divided into three segments.  Original Buddhist beads materials come from the wood of the Bodhi, a holy tree that stands to where Buddha was enlightened. 

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