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100 + YEARS OLD
TIBETAN TURQUOISE FREEFORM NUGGET BEAD.
1 BEAD. (100 + years old.)
Bead: 27 mm long x 24 mm wide x 17 mm deep (all at widest point & all aprox)
Weight: 11.5 gms.
This is an old Tibetan real turquoise freeform nugget bead. This bead has been well used. This old turquoise nugget bead has the most wonderful marks and a beautiful usage patina. These sacred turquoise beads are prized by the Tibetan's and people from the Himalayan regions.
These beads are prized by the Tibetan's and people from the Himalayan regions.
This bead was originally purchased in Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas.
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People string a few of these old Tibetan turquoise beads with other prized beads and sometimes use one bead on a sacred Mala.
Sometimes you see a Dzi bead strung with these Tibetan turquoise beads.
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Tibetan Turquoise.
Tibetans have always placed a high value on the power of stone beads, and Tibetan turquoise is one of the top prized stones. Local to the Himalayas, this turquoise is viewed by the Tibetans as a symbol for the sky. Traditionally, the larger the bead the more power it possessed, so Tibetan women spend their lifetimes trading up to a larger and more wonderfully coloured and patterned stone beads for their personal necklaces. The first jewellery given to Tibetan children is always turquoise, which is believed to keep people from falling. A conservative estimate of age for the Tibetan turquoise beads is 300-500 years, but considering that turquoise beads have been used throughout the region since at least 1000 B.C., some pieces can be older than 500 years.
Turquoise is widely appreciated by Tibetans and all through Tibetan history Turquoise has been prized, valued and worn as jewellery, not only for preserving the family wealth but also for its application in ritual and medicinal practice. "Gyu" (pronounced "yu") the name for turquoise seems to be indigenous, indicating that knowledge of the mineral came from within and not through outside influences. To call a turquoise a stone will offend a Tibetan who will exclaim, "This is a turquoise and not a stone," looking upon it as a thing distinct in itself.
Gemstones have always been associated with curious superstitions and turquoise is no exception. Many people have recognised that the change of colour in a turquoise gem is the direct result of variations in the state of the owner’s health (being in sympathy with the affections and the characteristic physical influences of the wearer). The gem grows paler and usually more green as the owner sickens or grows old, losing its colour and intensity entirely at death, but completely recovering its inherent qualities and beauty when given to a new and healthy possessor. Traditional lore avers that as turquoise is susceptible to the personality of the wearer, a gem must be treated with affection and regarded as a sentient being if its colour and luster are to be maintained and improved. Turquoise bestows happiness and good fortune if given by a loving hand, and sympathetic not only to the wearer’s health but also to the giver, paling in colour if he or she is threatened by evil.
In Tibetan literature, the word for turquoise is a favourite for describing natural objects of sky-blue colour such as beautiful lakes, wells and flowers, even the manes of horses, bees and tadpoles! The hair of goddesses and the eyebrows of children born in a supernatural manner are spoken of as turquoise-blue, and Tibetans speak poetically of the sky as "the turquoise of heaven", the 13 Turquoise Heavens referring to traditional mythology. King Du-srong Mang-po who reigned during the 8th century CE supposedly found the largest turquoise then known in the world on the top of Mount Tag-tse, a few miles north of Lhasa. A family living in the city at that time had their roof showered with turquoise and other precious gems by a generous deity. Apparently this mansion still stands, somewhere near the "Turquoise-roof Bridge" in Lhasa. One famous story is the one about King Srong-tsan Sgam-po winning the hand of his beautiful princess. He was required to pass a silk thread through a coil of turquoise beads arranged in a concentric circle. He solved the problem by tying the thread onto a queen ant, which he blew through the holes in the beads. To the amazement of the lookers-on, the ant came out at the other end of the coil dragging the thread along, and thus gained the princess’s hand in marriage.
Many Tibetans wear turquoise jewellery or carry pouches containing pieces of turquoise and turquoise beads as turquoise has a spiritual value to all Tibetans. It is very important to the Tibetan people that their turquoise is in its natural state and has not been altered. Many Tibetans also adorn their homes with Buddha statues, prayer-wheels, bells, vases and other artifacts that are embellished with Tibetan turquoise. Turquoise plays a major part in most Tibetan families throughout the Himalayan region. Turquoise is appreciated for its beauty as well as its complete spiritual value in many different ways. Tibetans feel when turquoise is altered it does not possess its metaphysical powers and is not able to be in harmony with the human body.Tibetan Turquoise is officially registered as a medicine in many works in Sanskrit texts for practitioners of the healing arts. Tibetan spiritual healing practitioners use three methods using turquoise for medicinal purposes. The first method is to let the patient look at the turquoise, the second method is to let the patient hold and rub the turquoise, the third method is for the spiritual healer to have crushed the turquoise a very fine powder which has been mixed with herb, spices and other sacred items. The healer then gets the patient to consume the spiritual elixir. Tibetans feel that real unaltered turquoise stones have many powers and values that are within the stone itself. Tibetan people call it turquoise and not a turquoise stone. Tibetan people believe turquoise is a something which is totally distinct and very special and real in itself. It is special and real to all Tibetans that there are no two turquoise stones which are alike. Every piece of turquoise is a vibrating essence of sacred spiritual atoms and each piece of turquoise is a sacred spiritual phenomenon which is distinct in itself!
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