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Pearl
Aside from kidney stones, pearl is the only gem made by a living animal. An oyster or mussel coats an intruder (a grain of sand, a bead nucleus, a piece...
Pearl
Aside from kidney stones, pearl is the only gem made by a living animal. An oyster or mussel coats an intruder (a grain of sand, a bead nucleus, a piece...
Malas 101
A mala (玛拉, ma la, from Sanskrit mālā, "garland") is a strand of counting beads for mantra practice, and even if you never count a thing with yours, it helps...
Malas 101
A mala (玛拉, ma la, from Sanskrit mālā, "garland") is a strand of counting beads for mantra practice, and even if you never count a thing with yours, it helps...
Liudaomu
Cut a branch of liudaomu (六道木, liu dao mu, "six-paths wood") and count the grooves: six natural channels run the length of the wood, evenly spaced, as if the tree...
Liudaomu
Cut a branch of liudaomu (六道木, liu dao mu, "six-paths wood") and count the grooves: six natural channels run the length of the wood, evenly spaced, as if the tree...
Lapis Lazuli
Some stones are gemstones. Lapis lazuli (青金石, qing jin shi, "blue gold stone") is a civilization. Its deep royal blue, flecked with gold pyrite like stars in a night sky,...
Lapis Lazuli
Some stones are gemstones. Lapis lazuli (青金石, qing jin shi, "blue gold stone") is a civilization. Its deep royal blue, flecked with gold pyrite like stars in a night sky,...
Jade
In China there is a single word, 玉 (yu), that means jade, and also means, in a sense, everything jade stands for. No other stone has been bound so tightly...
Jade
In China there is a single word, 玉 (yu), that means jade, and also means, in a sense, everything jade stands for. No other stone has been bound so tightly...
How Agar Wood Is Made
Everything precious about agar wood begins with an injury. The source trees are Aquilaria species, Aquilaria sinensis and relatives, fragrant trees native to the forests of Southeast Asia and southern...
How Agar Wood Is Made
Everything precious about agar wood begins with an injury. The source trees are Aquilaria species, Aquilaria sinensis and relatives, fragrant trees native to the forests of Southeast Asia and southern...