Tibetan human bone products are commonly known as Gabala. Its materials are generally donated by Tibetans who have obtained the perfect sambhogakaya after death, their skulls, leg bones, and finger bones to make special instruments! It is one of the tantric instruments.
The human bone rosary is only used in Tantric Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism, also known as Shingon Sect, is one of the sects of Chinese Buddhism. It spreads in Tibet, Qinghai and other places. Because it is characterized by highly organized spells, etiquette, and deity worship in practice, it has always had the characteristics of mysticism. Human bones are often used as instruments of magic. Of course, human bones used in human bone rosary beads are not suitable for ordinary people. It must be the remains of lamas and eminent monks. We know that Tibetan lamas are popular in sky burials after death, and feed their corpses to vultures, so as to achieve the ancestor's fetish of cutting off their thighs and feeding them to eagles. In the realm of Buddhism, the flesh has become the food of living beings, and the bones are donated to make utensils. So which part of the human body is used for the human bone rosary?
Most of them are finger bones and brow bones. Because Buddhism pays attention to fate, monks naturally use their fingers the most, and eyes are the place where they read Buddhist scriptures to understand the world. These two parts can be said to be the most fateful bones. It can become a magic weapon to open the wisdom of future generations. Generally speaking, rosary beads made of finger bones are relatively easy. Generally, a pair of rosary beads can be made with ten finger bones, and brow bones are relatively hard, so a pair of rosary beads It may be made with the brow bones of more than a dozen eminent monks. Just imagine how precious a small rosary has the karma of more than a dozen eminent monks in it. For a Buddhist, the production of human bone rosary is very complicated. Because it is all made by hand, monks must have very high skills, and they have to polish their luster every day. This may take more than ten years. Several eminent monks have passed away, so it may take fifty, sixty, or even a hundred years for a pair of rosary beads...
Only human bone rosary beads made of phalanx and brow bone can be called Gabala, while rosary beads made of human bones such as calf bones can only be called human bone beads, not Gabala.