OLD INDO-TIBETAN
SULEIMAN BANDED AGATE BEAD.
Bead length 21.66 mm. Bead maximum diameter: 19.12 mm.
Weight 10.2 grams.
People string a few of these ancient beads with other prized beads and sometimes use one bead on a sacred Mala.
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This is a hard to acquire very old olive shape Suleiman bead that was sourced in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal.
According to Buddhist tradition these old banded
Suleiman agate beads remove the root of all disease, they will also ensure good
health and a long and successful life.
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This type of banded agate bead was used by Buddhists in Afghanistan as Afghanistan was a predominant Buddhist culture up to the year 1000 AD.
This type of bead was also a very prized posession of Surfi Muslim Faqirs who had taken a vow of poverty and worship.
The Surfi Muslim Faqirs renounced all relations and posessions and were wandering Dervishes who taught Islam and lived on alms, they usually travelled between villages reciting scriptures and they performed various physical feats.
The word Faqir is a Muslim or Hindu monk or holy man.
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This old Suleiman banded agate bead is especially popular in Tibet and areas close by.
Beads such
as these were traded to be a "Part of the religious and cultural lives
of the inhabitants of Ladakh, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan."
There is mixed
opinion as to this beads age but it is a very old bead.
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Cracks made by a thousand cold
winters.
If
an agate bead has been 'lucky' enough to 'sleep' for hundreds or thousands of
years in areas where the temperature goes below zero during winter the moisture
in the bead will make small circular cracks in the surface of the bead. This is
due to the expansion of the water molecules when they turn into ice. This
beautiful sign of age is only to be seen in beads from the Himalayas and
Afghanistan and other places that have frost in the winter.
Beads that have
dwelled in areas with hotter climates will not display these marks of age. The
appearance of these cracks will also depend on the hardness and porousness of
the stone. A dense agate stone bead with less water inside will even survive the
winters of the Himalayas without these cracks.
* * * * * *
Suleiman
agates, or Solomon’s agates, are a highly revered bead throughout the Near
East and Central Asia that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries.
While some say the name comes from the secret location they were
originally mined from, which only King Solomon knew, others say that they
were once plain, unpatterned agates that only developed bands after being
in the possession of the famous King himself and his fabled wisdom. They
were said to impart to the possessor that same knowledge and power, as
well as the ability to control djinn (genies). For
many Tibetans, they were known as Bhaisajyaguru beads, or Medicine Buddha
beads. They were prized by families and passed from generation to
generation for their ability to preserve health and heal illness, and even
exercise power over death in some exceptional cases.
This is a hard to acquire very old olive shape Suleiman bead that was sourced in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal.
According to Buddhist tradition these old banded Suleiman agate beads remove the root of all disease, they will also ensure good health and a long and successful life.
* * * * * *
This type of banded agate bead was used by Buddhists in Afghanistan as Afghanistan was a predominant Buddhist culture up to the year 1000 AD.
This type of bead was also a very prized posession of Surfi Muslim Faqirs who had taken a vow of poverty and worship.
The Surfi Muslim Faqirs renounced all relations and posessions and were wandering Dervishes who taught Islam and lived on alms, they usually travelled between villages reciting scriptures and they performed various physical feats.
The word Faqir is a Muslim or Hindu monk or holy man.
* * * * * *
This old Suleiman banded agate bead is especially popular in Tibet and areas close by.
Beads such
as these were traded to be a "Part of the religious and cultural lives
of the inhabitants of Ladakh, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan."
There is mixed
opinion as to this beads age but it is a very old bead.
* * * * * *
This old Suleiman banded agate bead is especially popular in Tibet and areas close by.
Beads such
as these were traded to be a "Part of the religious and cultural lives
of the inhabitants of Ladakh, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan."
There is mixed
opinion as to this beads age but it is a very old bead.
* * * * * *
Cracks made by a thousand cold
winters.
If
an agate bead has been 'lucky' enough to 'sleep' for hundreds or thousands of
years in areas where the temperature goes below zero during winter the moisture
in the bead will make small circular cracks in the surface of the bead. This is
due to the expansion of the water molecules when they turn into ice. This
beautiful sign of age is only to be seen in beads from the Himalayas and
Afghanistan and other places that have frost in the winter.
Beads that have
dwelled in areas with hotter climates will not display these marks of age. The
appearance of these cracks will also depend on the hardness and porousness of
the stone. A dense agate stone bead with less water inside will even survive the
winters of the Himalayas without these cracks.
* * * * * *
Suleiman
agates, or Solomon’s agates, are a highly revered bead throughout the Near
East and Central Asia that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries.
While some say the name comes from the secret location they were
originally mined from, which only King Solomon knew, others say that they
were once plain, unpatterned agates that only developed bands after being
in the possession of the famous King himself and his fabled wisdom. They
were said to impart to the possessor that same knowledge and power, as
well as the ability to control djinn (genies). For
many Tibetans, they were known as Bhaisajyaguru beads, or Medicine Buddha
beads. They were prized by families and passed from generation to
generation for their ability to preserve health and heal illness, and even
exercise power over death in some exceptional cases.
If
an agate bead has been 'lucky' enough to 'sleep' for hundreds or thousands of
years in areas where the temperature goes below zero during winter the moisture
in the bead will make small circular cracks in the surface of the bead. This is
due to the expansion of the water molecules when they turn into ice. This
beautiful sign of age is only to be seen in beads from the Himalayas and
Afghanistan and other places that have frost in the winter.
Beads that have
dwelled in areas with hotter climates will not display these marks of age. The
appearance of these cracks will also depend on the hardness and porousness of
the stone. A dense agate stone bead with less water inside will even survive the
winters of the Himalayas without these cracks.
* * * * * *
Suleiman
agates, or Solomon’s agates, are a highly revered bead throughout the Near
East and Central Asia that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries.
While some say the name comes from the secret location they were
originally mined from, which only King Solomon knew, others say that they
were once plain, unpatterned agates that only developed bands after being
in the possession of the famous King himself and his fabled wisdom. They
were said to impart to the possessor that same knowledge and power, as
well as the ability to control djinn (genies). For
many Tibetans, they were known as Bhaisajyaguru beads, or Medicine Buddha
beads. They were prized by families and passed from generation to
generation for their ability to preserve health and heal illness, and even
exercise power over death in some exceptional cases.
* * * * * *
Suleiman
agates, or Solomon’s agates, are a highly revered bead throughout the Near
East and Central Asia that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries.
While some say the name comes from the secret location they were
originally mined from, which only King Solomon knew, others say that they
were once plain, unpatterned agates that only developed bands after being
in the possession of the famous King himself and his fabled wisdom. They
were said to impart to the possessor that same knowledge and power, as
well as the ability to control djinn (genies). For
many Tibetans, they were known as Bhaisajyaguru beads, or Medicine Buddha
beads. They were prized by families and passed from generation to
generation for their ability to preserve health and heal illness, and even
exercise power over death in some exceptional cases.
* * * * * *
Suleiman
agates, or Solomon’s agates, are a highly revered bead throughout the Near
East and Central Asia that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries.
While some say the name comes from the secret location they were
originally mined from, which only King Solomon knew, others say that they
were once plain, unpatterned agates that only developed bands after being
in the possession of the famous King himself and his fabled wisdom. They
were said to impart to the possessor that same knowledge and power, as
well as the ability to control djinn (genies). For
many Tibetans, they were known as Bhaisajyaguru beads, or Medicine Buddha
beads. They were prized by families and passed from generation to
generation for their ability to preserve health and heal illness, and even
exercise power over death in some exceptional cases.
* * * * * *
Suleiman
agates, or Solomon’s agates, are a highly revered bead throughout the Near
East and Central Asia that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries.
While some say the name comes from the secret location they were
originally mined from, which only King Solomon knew, others say that they
were once plain, unpatterned agates that only developed bands after being
in the possession of the famous King himself and his fabled wisdom. They
were said to impart to the possessor that same knowledge and power, as
well as the ability to control djinn (genies). For
many Tibetans, they were known as Bhaisajyaguru beads, or Medicine Buddha
beads. They were prized by families and passed from generation to
generation for their ability to preserve health and heal illness, and even
exercise power over death in some exceptional cases.
* * * * * *
Suleiman agates, or Solomon’s agates, are a highly revered bead throughout the Near East and Central Asia that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. While some say the name comes from the secret location they were originally mined from, which only King Solomon knew, others say that they were once plain, unpatterned agates that only developed bands after being in the possession of the famous King himself and his fabled wisdom. They were said to impart to the possessor that same knowledge and power, as well as the ability to control djinn (genies). For many Tibetans, they were known as Bhaisajyaguru beads, or Medicine Buddha beads. They were prized by families and passed from generation to generation for their ability to preserve health and heal illness, and even exercise power over death in some exceptional cases.
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Therefore we do not provide these objects in an ordinary way, thinking
of them as goods to be bought and sold. Rather, we are making them
available with the express wish to benefit others. All funds in excess
of our costs help us to continue our activities.
Our
sacred, rare, empowered and blessed items are being made available for
the benefit of practitioners, like you, who would like to have holy
objects as devotional support to your practice. It is contrary to our
vows to engage in the business of selling holy objects for profit.
Therefore we do not provide these objects in an ordinary way, thinking
of them as goods to be bought and sold. Rather, we are making them
available with the express wish to benefit others. All funds in excess
of our costs help us to continue our activities.
Our
sacred, rare, empowered and blessed items are being made available for
the benefit of practitioners, like you, who would like to have holy
objects as devotional support to your practice. It is contrary to our
vows to engage in the business of selling holy objects for profit.
Therefore we do not provide these objects in an ordinary way, thinking
of them as goods to be bought and sold. Rather, we are making them
available with the express wish to benefit others. All funds in excess
of our costs help us to continue our activities.
