Meaning of rosary beads?

Renunciation beads: also known as beads, chanting beads, mantra beads. Buddhists use rosary beads to chant the Buddha's name in order to get rid of worries, stabilize the mind, or praise Amitabha Buddha in the West. The rosary beads are 108 as the basic, another 54, 27, 14 (all halved), 42, 21, and even 180 for the top grade.

The number of beads is said to contain meaning. The number of beads is said to have a meaning. 108 beads means that 108 troubles have been removed. One hundred and eighty beads represent the 108 deities of the Vajra realm. Fifty-four beads represent the ten beliefs, ten dwellings, ten actions, ten directions, and the fifty-four positions of the four root causes. Forty-two grains represent the forty-two positions of the Ten Abodes, Ten Actions, Ten Reversals, and Ten Grounds of Equanimity and Wonderful Enlightenment. The twenty-seven grains indicate the eighteen learners and the nine unlearned. Fourteen grains represent the fourteen fearlessnesses of Guanyin. The twenty-one rosaries represent the Ten Grounds, Ten Paras, and the Twenty-one Fruits of the Buddha. The materials of rosary beads are made of gold, silver, red copper, crystal, coral ...... glass, wood, and wood and wood sufferers.

Renunciation beads: rosary beads are used for counting when reciting the Buddha's name, and they are the symbols of merit, Buddha nature, compassion, kindness, good fortune, perfection, and Buddha's heart, and they are also wonderful decorations in addition to reminding oneself not to do bad things.

It is a dharma tool used to keep count when chanting the name of Buddha or Bodhisattva or holding a mantra. Originally, it was King Veluriya of India who asked Shakyamuni Buddha to enlighten him on the method of eliminating worries, and the Buddha taught him to use the seeds of the mulberry tree (a kind of Bodhi tree) to thread them into a string of beads and hold the Buddha's name to eliminate his worries.

China's record of rosary beads is the "Biography of the High Priests," which says that in the Sui and Tang dynasties, Master Daochuo taught people to hold rosary beads and recite the names of the Three Jewels. The rosary, some people call "tie the horse rope", a metaphor for the human heart as a wild horse, distractions flying, the moment non-stop, hand pinch the rosary to curb the delusion. Therefore, all practitioners have rosary beads as a must-have item. In particular, the rosary to cultivate the Pure Land Buddha Dharma and cultivate secret mantra most commonly used, holding the rosary at any time to increase the power of chanting, in order to generate wisdom, regardless of the chanting of the mantra to be clear, the body and mind to focus on all put down

A rosary, strung on a string, is to indicate that all the Bodhisattva's great virtues.

A mother bead in the string means the infinite life and infinite light of Maitreya.

The rosary beads, although strung together, can also be separated and severed, which signifies that with all the great virtues of the Bodhisattva, all our troubles are severed.

The round shape of the ring symbolizes the perfect and righteous fruits of the Bodhisattva.

The rosary has a certain number of beads, and each number has its own specific meaning. One theory is that the early bhikkhus strung thirty rings, black and white, for day-keeping; 108 mainly to break the hundred and eight troubles, according to the sutra that each of the six roots of man has six kinds of troubles, together 36, with the past, present and future three lives, forming a hundred and eight troubles.

There are many kinds of rosary materials, the common ones are Tendai Bodhi, imitation Bodhi, grass Bodhi, sandalwood, imitation marble, coral, onyx, jade, crystal, amber, pineapple eye Bodhi, vajra Bodhi, astral moon Bodhi and so on.