Lapis Mala

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Lapis Mala

Price $119.00

Product Code: MBD-L108

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Lapis Mala - 108 8 mm beads, natural lapis lazuli, with three turquoise markers and lapis guru bead. Tassel either blue or turquoise green - no choice, depends on what's in stock. In Tibetan Buddhism, lapis blue is associated with the Medicine Buddha. Strung in the U.S. by U.S. artisans.

LAPIS LAZULI, with its deep, azure blue, often flecked with golden pyrite inclusions, was treasured by ancient Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations. Persian legend says that the heavens owed their blue color to a massive slab of Lapis upon which the earth rested. In Tibetan Buddhism, Lapis Blue is associated with the "Medicine Buddha." Lapis was traditionally ground into a powder pigment and used in Tibetan Thangka Paintings (Sacred Art).