Do you mean cane beads? If so, they are beads made by placing many bead rods together to form a design at the end. Once fused, the new rod is sliced and the resulting beads have a design formed by...
Prayer beads or japa malas are used in many forms of Mahayana Buddhism. They usually contain either the 108 beads of the Hindu japa mala or a divisor of 108. In Pure Land Buddhism, for instance,...