Cold Iron Mala Bead Counters

The list is a pair of counters, 10 counter beads and skull pendants on each attached to your mala.

100% Handmade
Bead Material:cold iron
String Material:leather rope
String Length: 100mm / 3.95 inches
Bead Diameter: 6mm /0.23 inches

❤How to use bead counters
Counting with Counters - When counting very large numbers of mantra recitations, it is helpful to have some additional counters attached to your malas.
One of the strings has the dorje at the end, and the other the bell. Where these strings are placed on the mala is totally up to you. Tibetans usually have theirs after the 6th bead on either side of the guru bead, but that is for no special reason and you can put them wherever you like.
We use the dorje counter to keep count of each circuit of 100 that we make on the mala. So each time you finish one circuit, you will pull forward one bead on the dorje counter to the top of the counter. After 10 circuits of the mala, you will have moved all 10 beads on your dorje counter, and you will have recited 1000 mantras. After that, you will move one bead forward to the top on the bell counter, to symbolize 1000 mantras counted. Then you begin again with a new circuit on your mala, and once you have made a new circuit, you move one of the dorje counter beads forward, and continue like this.
With a counter, you can count up to 10,000 mantra recitations.