The number of eyes on Tibetan amulets and their meaning. As many people already know, there are particular pictograms applied on holy Tibetan dZi stones. These are either eyes or some kind of symbols, figures. The patterns are applied for a good reason. Today I am going to tell you what power the Tibetans endue […]
Celestial iron, black axe stone and the stone – metal types of “meteorite” amulets. If you think that the word “meteorite” means the amulet made of meteorite iron (which is got from the meteorite fallen onto the ground), you are mistaken. As there are a lot of types of “celestial” things (in the Tibetans’ opinion), […]
In my last article (here) I told about fossilized coin dZi beads, but I didn’t mention their coral type. So, there is one more unusual type of talismans made of agate sea polyps. What does agate coral fossil look like? The most ancient of them are 450 million years old. They were formed from invertebrate […]
Once upon a time they were living beings, which later fossilized… I suppose you heard many times several Chinese legends of dZi beads origination. For example, the legend that Gods threw the beads onto the earth and people found them. Or another legend, that there were meteorites from the space, or maybe the insects or […]
In ancient times these unusual stones were well known to Tibetan shamans. They were used as the type of dZi stones to be protected from evil spirits and jinx as well as to attract luck. Only several decades ago such stones with mysterious relief eyes were believed to have disappeared. But not long time ago […]
One of interesting types of dZi beads are the leopard beads. They are also called dZi beads in “leopard skin”. There are several types of them but the most expensive and popular are the items of black and yellow color with deep relief, wide holes and prominent resemblance of antiquity. Nowadays they hardly can be […]
Silver and gold threads as well as semi-precious stones became main peculiarity of unusual dZi beads series of ancient Tang Dynasty. On March 2, 641 Chinese Princess Wencheng came to Tibet as a wife of Tibetan imperator Songtsan Gambo and the era of great Tan Dynasty began, from which the development of Tibetan Buddhism began […]
Among various magic and secret places which we learnt from books and stories there are such places which you can really visit and test their magic yourself. I am going to tell you about one of such places, which is located in full of secrets Tibet. This is Shangri-La. For the first time people learnt […]
The idea of these prayer beads appeared during my walk along Buddhist Wisdom Path of Holy Eight on Po Lin Monastery surrounding area. Once again I walked along Wisdom Path to carry my amulets by Holy Eight road along which the wooden pillars with Heart Sutras were set. The sun shone brightly. Suddenly beautiful butterflies […]
I told you about dZi beads authenticity in my previous article (read here). Now I will try to answer the frequently asked question about the age of dZi beads that I bring and their history. My dear friends, I have already written that you can hardly find ancient dZi brads on the open market. That […]