Dzi Beads And Tibetan Culture

Posted by slang on April 15, 2007

For a beginner who wishes to collect Dzi, it is just not the collecting of another type of gemstone or crystal or others.

Dzi has its strong Tibetan history. ( learn about its origin,legend and history in an earlier article).

It is equally important to note that Dzi bead is the Tibetans’ most Precious Living Gemstone.

Why is it so?

Over several thousand years, Dzi Beads have been absorbing the spiritual energy from Buddha’s land of mystique: Tibet, and have received blessings and devout worship. The strong magnetic energy, mysterious sensory force and a whole variety of motifs have endowed the millennia-old Dzi Beads with unique charms and superior aesthetic values.

The Tibetans believe that the beads are not produced artificially, but formed naturally as it is a treasure bestowed upon mankind from the gods. Thus, the Dzi Beads were being passed down generations after generations and have become the precious spiritual and material heritage for the Tibetans.

The Tibetans believe that only those with huge merit can own the ancient Dzi Beads. Its blessings for the wearer has to do with the individual’s level of enlightenment as things of the same kind attract. They believed that Dzi Beads are very spiritual treasures.

In view of the foregoing, the Dzi beads hold a very special meaning to the Tibetan’s lives:

• It is the treasure offered to the royal family generations after generations.

• Ancient pure Dzi beads can be used for mortgage purposes in Banks or the City’s Credit Bureau.

• In the past, Dzi bead is no different from cash. Because of their small size, they are easy to maintain and carried around, the royalty and the rich will exchange their domesticated animals, land and money for them. It is also not uncommon to see expensive goods being exchanged for Dzi beads.

• Dzi beads are essential ornament in a Tibetan lady’s adulthood and marriage ceremony.

• The quantity and quality of the Dzi beads can reveal the wealth of the family.

• Dzi Bead is also a precious medical ingredient in many Tibetan medical dictionaries.

• Dzi bead is the Tibetan’s most precious amulet. It is believed that devout worship of the Dzi Bead can remove hindrance of karma, receive blessings, prevention against stroke, guard against evil, improves vitality and increase wealth.

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