Beads, formerly known as rosary beads, refer to a portable device that uses a thread to pass through a certain number of beads and is used for counting when chanting Buddha or holding a spell.
In Buddhist classics, the origin of beads is generally based on the enlightenment of the Buddha to the exiled king Amethyst. Jing Yun:
The Buddha said to the king: If you want to get rid of troubles and report obstacles, you must stick to the pegs 180 times, so that you can keep following; If you walk, sit, or lie down, you will never be distracted. The name of Buddha, Dharma and Monk is a journal. If there is, step by step, if ten, if twenty, if hundreds, if thousands, or even millions. If you can get more than 200,000 times, your body and mind will not be chaotic, and you will be happy forever if you die on the third day. If you can recover more than one million times, you will be cut off from 180% and finish your studies. You will start to be famous for your life and death, you will be interested in mud, and you will never get any results. ..... Wang Dahuan was so happy that he saluted the Buddha from a distance: Great mercy and great compassion! I should follow it. In other words, officials privately run rafts, thinking that there are thousands of rafts, and all the relatives and the country are related to one. Wang often said that although he was close to the army, he did not abandon it.
It can be seen that after hearing the enlightenment from the Buddha, King Fang Bo began to make beads with wooden pegs, holding the name of three treasures of Buddhism, in order to remove troubles and report obstacles. This should be the original origin of Buddhist beads.