--- thomaslaw03 <thomaslaw03@...> skrev:

> In the book, An Introduction to Buddhism, the author
> (Peter Harvey)
> states that rosaries are used in Southern Buddhism
> to count off
> repeated chants as a mantra

In Burma, I have seen for sale two kinds of rosaries:
one with 32 beads (supposably for "kesa loma
nakhaa..."), and one with 108; I don't know how this
longer one is mainly used.

I can't remember having seen rosaries in Ceylon or
Siam; I haven't visited Laos and Cambodia.

Gunnar