This wrist mala is strung with 27 pearl beads and a mother-of-pearl guru bead. A wrist mala is a shorter strand — here 27 beads, a quarter of the full 108 — worn on the wrist for counting mantra recitations through the day.

“A raksha mala multiplies each recitation by 20 million, and a pearl mala by 100 million.”

— Padmasambhava, in Gyatrul Rinpoche, The Generation Stage in Buddhist Tantra

Details

• Beads: 27 (plus mother-of-pearl guru bead)
• Bead size: 0.2 in (5 mm)
• Material: Pearl with mother-of-pearl guru bead