{"id":731,"date":"2014-09-29T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=731"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:26:50","slug":"practice-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/29\/practice-27\/","title":{"rendered":"27. Mother of Pearl Prayer Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tibet, early 19th century; mother of pearl, coral, ivory, silver alloy, copper alloy; 21 3\/4 x 2 1\/8 x 1\/2 in.; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Anne Breckenridge Dorsey, C2012.49.<\/p>\n<p>A string of Buddhist prayer beads is known as a <b><i>mala<\/i><\/b> in <b>Sanskrit<\/b>. Commonly used in <b>mantra<\/b> recitation, each <i>mala<\/i> usually has 108 beads. The practitioner moves one bead each time she repeats the mantra. The red counters with tassels seen here have small metal beads on them; once all 108 recitations are completed, the practitioner moves a bead up the counter to mark a complete set. The other counter marks sets of ten. Some <i>malas<\/i> have a third counter, which keeps track of hundreds of sets. Because white is associated with <b>Avalokiteshvara<\/b>, this mala probably was used to accumulate his six-syllable<b> mantra<\/b>, <b><i>om mani padme hum<\/i><\/b>. LK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibet, early 19th century; mother of pearl, coral, ivory, silver alloy, copper alloy; 21 3\/4 x 2 1\/8 x 1\/2 in.; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Anne Breckenridge Dorsey, C2012.49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[69162],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice","tag-practice_8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}