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It turns quietly enough to use in a meeting without anyone noticing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a fidget, honestly, and there is nothing wrong with that. The people who wear these reach for them in traffic, in waiting rooms, in the middle of a hard conversation. That is exactly what it is for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lettering is raised out of the metal, so it survives being spun thousands of times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 卍 is the manji, read wan, meaning ten thousand and by extension all things.\u003c\/strong\u003e It sits on the chest of Buddha statues from India to Japan, it is one of the oldest auspicious symbols in Asia, and it predates the twentieth-century European use most people think of first by several thousand years. 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A strange and useful thing to have running round a finger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor anyone who has a practice and would rather carry it than display it.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a wide band: chunky on a slim hand, ordinary on a broad one. The photographs show it worn both ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSizing and care\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen band, so there is no size to get wrong. Squeeze gently to tighten, widen to loosen, then set it once and leave it. Repeated bending is what tires silver out. 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Every one carries \u003cstrong\u003eOm Mani Padme Hum\u003c\/strong\u003e, the mantra of the bodhisattva of compassion. Travellers keep the walls on their right as they walk by, and many add a stone of their own, asking the mantra to go with them down the road ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis bracelet carries the same mantra.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is the mani stone made small enough to take with you, so the protection leaves the pass and goes wherever you are going.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor anyone who travels often, or is about to set off.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWearing it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoll it over the hand to put it on and take it off, which is kinder to the elastic than stretching it wide. The silver beads darken gradually with wear, and a soft cloth brings them back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStones:\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural tiger eye, 10mm beads\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMantra beads:\u003c\/strong\u003e Three Tibetan silver beads cast with Om Mani Padme Hum in Tibetan script\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIntention:\u003c\/strong\u003e Protection on the road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural stone, so the band of light falls differently on every bead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Earth Tibet","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":67596993921326,"sku":null,"price":47.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"M","offer_id":52625021829422,"sku":"200000639:967","price":47.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":52625021763886,"sku":"200000639:1438","price":47.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":52625021993262,"sku":"200000639:2831","price":47.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/4807\/7102\/files\/tiger-mantra-protection-bracelet-1.webp?v=1789113919"},{"product_id":"tiger-eye-prayer-barrel-bracelet","title":"Tiger Eye Prayer Barrel Bracelet","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou will feel this one on your wrist all day, and that is the whole idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThin bracelets get forgotten by ten in the morning.\u003c\/strong\u003e A 12mm strand does not. It has weight, it shifts when you move your arm, it knocks against a desk when you reach for something. Every one of those is a small interruption, and an amulet that interrupts you is doing more work than one you stop noticing. This is the version for someone who wants to be reminded, not decorated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe barrel hanging off the strand is a mantra cylinder\u003c\/strong\u003e, engraved in panels with Tibetan script and modelled on the prayer wheels that stand in rows outside Tibetan temples, where people run a hand along them as they walk past. 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