We are bringing back our custom design option this week!  See Here!

Custom mala, made just for you! If you’d like a mala custom designed from any of our existing semiprecious stones, seeds or bone (most are 8mm), we’d be happy to make one. There are many options to choose from, so for detailed info, visit the the links below, and for more info Click Here There is a drop down menu for each of these items on the next page. There is a base fee of $20 for a custom mala, and each option is an “add on.” We can offer only designs from the menu below only.(If the choices seem overwhelming, you can always keep it simple, and purchase one of our well-crafted malas, just as photographed.) Continue reading →

I just returned from a month long retreat with Tsoknyi Rinpoche in Crestone, CO. It was a great integration of practice and teachings. During the first week Rinpoche gave three empowerments from the Chokling Tersar cycle of teachings – a Guru Rinpoche,  Vajrasattva and a Tara. (here’s a link to more on Chokgyur Lingpa

http://www.choklingtersar.org/library/Chokgyur_Lingpa_Life.pdf

For the next three weeks we moved to a Tibetan tent on Pundarika land where Rinpoche taught on Gampopa’s “The Precious Garland of the Sublime Path”.  This text includes lots of 10 things to do and not to do on the path…10 useless things, 10 ways to destroy yourself, 10 necessities, etc.(a big change from Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s usual Dzogchen teachings), but all in all, a very practical guide to the three Yana path. Outside of the 3 hours of daily teaching in the big tent we practiced another 7 hours divided into 3 sessions in our own locations. I personally find this kind of retreat, based on the Tibetan yogi camp style of daily teaching and isolated personal practice, the perfect way to assimilate the dharma.

For some reason the underlying theme of the retreat was summarized by this quote from Buddha that we found one morning on our zafus, “My dream-like form appears to dream-like beings to show the dream-like path to dream-like enlightenment.” Continue reading →

Buddhist Mala Beads without Tassels!
We just started to offer mala prayer beads without tassels, and now have a LapisMala on sale this week-
Check them out here:
http://www.buddhistmala.com/store/sale.html

http://www.buddhistmala.com/store/tassel_less_malas.html

We still prefer to make malas with tassels, so that we can use the durable, state of the art cable- soft flex-
http://buddhistmala.com/store/mala_restringing.html
What experiences with malas breaking or lasting the longest have people had?