Kohgen

Women's rosary, crystal, 8 inches, Soto Zen, lavender amethyst finish

$249.00 USD

Soto Zen crystal prayer beads made with lavender amethyst.


These prayer beads are made with lavender amethyst, which is impressive for its classic crystal and clear purple color.
Crystal is the most common stone used for prayer beads,
It is said that it brings harmony to the home and office because adjacent crystals are formed at a certain angle.

The outside of the amethyst rough stone is crystal, and the deeper you go into the rough stone, the more purple the color becomes.
Lavender amethyst is more rare than amethyst in terms of value, and refers to the purple part just before the amethyst.

The combination of the transparency of crystal and the calm purple color of lavender amethyst gives this prayer bead a neat impression.


About the Soto Zen sect

The shape of the Soto Zen rosary is very similar to that of the Rinzai sect, but a distinctive feature of the Soto Zen sect is that the beads have metal rings running through them.
It is unclear why they are there, but one theory is that the rings represent Bodhidharma.

Product size

- Main bead: Diameter approx. 0.9cm (lavender amethyst)
- Facing bead: Diameter approx. 0.65cm (lavender amethyst)
- Main bead: Diameter approx. 0.35cm (crystal)
- Heavenly bead: Diameter approx. 0.25cm (lavender amethyst)