ancient Agate Pure dZi bead Medicine

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Ancient Tibetan dZi Medicine. red dots. Yak Horn/Brass/Karelian Shungite necklace

Very beautiful translucent beads from the horn of the Water Buffalo that live in the foothills of the Himalayas. The horns of the water buffalo are hollow. If you take the material from the wall of the horn, then it exfoliates over time. Only at the tip of 3-5 cm is there a dense place that is used to make beads. Therefore, these beads are quite expensive. More expensive than Jasper or Agate beads. Probably the price of these beads is comparable to Turquoise.

MAIN dZi bead Medicine
Medicine Buddha or Medicine dZi bead. Restores healer's power. Fills return ease and laughter. Anyway, everybody is a healer to some extent or other, we are engaged in treatment and self-treatment. dZi bead Medicine does not cure the physical body, but it gives strength and restores the balance of Qi energy. The dZi bead works with our astral body, with such energies that are primary.

This dZi bead contains "Dragon's Blood" as the Tibetans call the small red dots of iron oxides, which are known in China as Cinnabar dots. 
As a gemologist, I can say that cinnabar as a mineral (HgS - mercury sulfide) is not present in Agate, the Chinese call these points due to their color. Every artist knows the color "cinnabar", as the paint has been made on the basis of this mineral since ancient times. Red dots are formed in old agate beads, but not in all beads. Dragon Blood especially often appears in beads that are continuously worn in contact with the body. This is due to the temperature, when worn, oxidation processes are faster, but still, take hundreds of years. Sometimes the dots are so small that they are only visible at high magnifications.
Many cinnabar beads can be found on sale today,
 but almost all of them will be glass copies of old beads. In general, the modern dZi bead market looks like a competition for fakes.

The name Chong (or Chung) dZi bead originated in pre-Buddhist times when the Bon religion was widespread in Tibet. This was the name of any beads made of Agate, Carnelian, or Holcedony, possibly ancient, but the creation of which did not use the canons according to which Pure dZi is made. These were natural mineral beads of various shapes, sometimes with stripes of natural origin. Other beads from Asia were also referred to them. Afghanistan, China, and Oceania, and etched carnelian beads.
Dzi Medicine, as well as beads with eyes and other symbols, was considered in Tibet to be Pure dZi, since they were made according to the same canons.
During the reign of the Ming dynasty in China (about 500-600 years ago), a large number of Chinese beads, very similar to the Tibetan Pure dZi of Medicine, came to Tibet. Perhaps this is how China tried to influence Tibet. It has always been a difficult relationship.
Back in the days when beads were not known at all and were not in demand in the West. But in Tibet, beads were involved in the trade, for example, a good bead could be exchanged for a bag of rice. Since there were few good dZi masters in China, the Chinese generally did a lot of Medicine dZi beads, as such a symbol is easy to produce.

I heard this version of the origin of the name Chong DZi from my mentor, who lived in Dharamshala and communicated with Tibetan monks. This is different from what I later read on the Internet, however, I think that this information should not be lost.

Today many people call "Chong" dZi all the Medicine Striped Beads, although by this version this is not correct.
So Chong dZi translates to "less desirable", but essentially it means "done in some way out of our control, and that doesn't guarantee you quality internal content."
At its core, almost the entire dZi beads in the modern market today are the Chong (or Chung) dZi beads.
   

Taken in: China / Tibet / Sangdeng (show map)

Taken on: June 21, 2021

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