Hilton Chen
Repetition
A Bhutanese man poses with his prayer beads. The primary use of prayer beads is to keep track of the number times a mantra is recited. A typical prayer bead contains 108 beads, corresponding to the sacred number in Buddhism. As practitioners recite mantras, they pass each bead through their fingers, helping them maintain focus and count the repetitions without distraction. If you recite the mantras 108 times, then you have counted through all the beads on the string. The prayer beads often have knots or rings that accounts for every hundred and thousand rounds that the faithful has gone through the prayer beads.
Repetition
A Bhutanese man poses with his prayer beads. The primary use of prayer beads is to keep track of the number times a mantra is recited. A typical prayer bead contains 108 beads, corresponding to the sacred number in Buddhism. As practitioners recite mantras, they pass each bead through their fingers, helping them maintain focus and count the repetitions without distraction. If you recite the mantras 108 times, then you have counted through all the beads on the string. The prayer beads often have knots or rings that accounts for every hundred and thousand rounds that the faithful has gone through the prayer beads.