Chanting Mala – Ebony
Chanting Mala – Ebony
Original price was: $229.00.$199.00Current price is: $199.00.
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Ebony – The Wood of Stillness & Strength
Ground Your Practice. Deepen Every Chant.
Crafted from genuine Black Ebony Wood, this traditional 108-bead chanting mala is designed to guide your chanting practice, allowing your hands to keep count so your heart can remain fully present. Long treasured in Eastern traditions, ebony has been associated with grounding, inner strength, protection, and spiritual purification. Many practitioners value ebony for its symbolic connection to releasing negativity, calming the mind, reducing stress, and cultivating deep focus during meditation and chanting.
Whether you’re beginning your chanting journey or deepening an established practice, let each bead guide you toward greater presence, peace, and spiritual growth.
“Favored by scholars and nobility alike — a symbol of quiet authority, discipline, and inner strength.
Legends and Stories
I.The Sacred Origin
On Mount Wutai — one of Buddhism’s four sacred mountains — grows a wood found nowhere else in such abundance. Legend holds that when Manjushri Bodhisattva returned from India, the wooden staff he carried bore six deep grooves along its length. He planted it into the mountainside, and from it grew the tree the world now calls Liudaomu: the Six-Path Wood.
Because of this origin, the wood is regarded as sacred, blessed by the same hand that wields the Wisdom Sword — the blade said to cut through worry, delusion, and affliction.
II.The Dragon-Subduing Wood
In Han Chinese folklore this same wood carries a second name — Jianglongmu, the Dragon-Subduing Wood. It appears in The Generals of the Yang Family, one of China’s most beloved storytelling epics, as the weapon carried by Mu Guiying, the legendary heroine who broke through the impenetrable Heavenly Gate Formation. A wood born of a bodhisattva’s staff, wielded in legend by a warrior — Liudaomu carries both stillness and strength.
III.The Grain & the Living Wood
Held daily, the wood is called “alive” — cool in summer, warm in winter. Cream-white when new, it ripens with years of handling into honey-gold, then a deep reddish-brown, and finally a semi-transparent amber some call “jadeification.” Watching this slow change is part of the practice itself.
One Set. Two Ways to Practice.
108 Beads
The 108 Afflictions
Buddhist teaching counts 108 afflictions that bind the mind to suffering — reached by multiplying every way we experience the world: six senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, thought), three feelings each (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral), two states (pure, defiled), across three times (past, present, future).
6 × 3 × 2 × 3 = 108. One bead moved for each affliction released, one full mala for a complete cycle of practice.
28 Beads
The 28 Lunar Mansions
Ancient Chinese astronomy divides the night sky into 28 constellations, grouped in fours of seven and guarded by the Azure Dragon (East), Vermilion Bird (South), White Tiger (West), and Black Tortoise (North).
To wear all 28 is to carry the sky’s full protective circuit — worn daily as a quiet talisman for safety and good fortune.
$229 — Complete Set
One 108-bead mala and one 28-bead bracelet, hand-strung. Sold exclusively as a set.
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