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title: JAPAMALA - BUDDHIST ROSARY

subject date: 2010-05-16

caption: TIBET Tibetan Buddhist prayer with japamala. Japamala is a type of rosary useful for repeating the name of a deity or a verbal and mental mantra. Japa means 'to murmur', mala means 'garland', 'necklace'. A mala has 108 grains but this does not represent the number 108, but 1 represents reality, 0 at the center represents divinity and 8 represents creative nature. When nature and reality come together, creation, perception and cognition take place. By adding together one and eight we have 9, number that multiplied by any other number, will always give a number whose summed figures will always form nine. In the same way, the Universe is constant, invariable and perfect. Photograph by Raffaella Milandri, Tibet, May 2009

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copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi/Raffaella Milandri

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Cina

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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continent: Asia

image century : XXI

image epoch: Contemporaneo

subject century: XXI

subject epoch: Contemporaneo

technique: Fotografia

id: 27916

file name: FSNgilardi_63610.jpg

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Tibetcultural anthropologyprayerreligionBuddhismjapamalaRosarymantrapearlsNecklacegrainssymbolrealitydivinitycreative naturecreationuniverseContemporaryMilandri R.Raffaella MilandriTibetanTwo thousand