Talk:Buddhist prayer beads
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Use??
Unfortunately this article gives no hint of what type of prayers are said when these counting-beads are used. What is their source? Are they said in Pali or do the individual devotees use their own languages? Thus the main reason for being of such aids to devotion is left out of the article. 65.206.122.30 (talk)
Nian ju
I changed "thought beads" to "mindfulness beads". The characters 念珠 mean nenju, and 念仏 mean nembutsu (see the Nianfo entry). Nembutsu is translated as "mindfulness of the Buddha" so I think "mindfulness" gives a more accurate impression of the meaning than thought.
9 planets?
In whose "ancient cosmology" were there "9 planets"? Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are the 5 actual planets visible without a telescope. Then things like the sun, the moon, or Earth may or may not have been included, but that brings a maximum of 8 as far as I know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.147.254 (talk) 18:04, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- Astrology is definitely not a part of Buddhist teachings, so this point is invalid. I removed that part and expanded on the other points. --Ph0kin (talk) 05:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Merge
- Merge and redirect Japa mala to Buddhist prayer beads
Should be self-explanatory. - jc37 02:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Everything in Japa mala is already merged into this article, and even explained better. However the Japa mala article was restored, since somebody pointed out that Japa Malas are used both in Hinduism and Buddhism. Actually maybe Japa mala should give two links, one to Buddhist prayer beads and one to Hindu prayer beads. Since the use must be different in the two religions (I do not know much about the use in Hinduism), this could be an idea. Also, using the english naming would be better according to the WP:STYLE guidelines. Siru108 (talk) 08:01, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Should be two artilces. They discuss different things and respectively 8 and 11 interwiki's show that this difference is made in other languages too. Davin (talk) 13:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I moved Japa Mala to Hindu prayer beads. Think it works that way. The english article name should be used (not Mala/Japa Mala) according to WP:ENGLISH. Siru108 (talk) 09:06, 3 May 2009 (UTC)