string of beads used in various religious traditions
The image depicts several Christian prayer beads; from left to right are a Roman Catholic Dominican rosary, a Lutheran Wreath of Christ, a set of Anglican prayer beads, a Celtic Church Pater Noster cord, and a Coptic Orthodox mequteria. Prayer beads are a form of beadwork used to count the repetitions of prayers, chants, or mantras by members of various religions such as Christian denominations (such as the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Anglican Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Eastern Orthodox Churches), Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Umbanda, Sikhism, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam. Prayer beads may also be used by some Sephardi or Mizrahi Jews. Common forms of beaded devotion include the mequteria in Oriental Orthodox Christianity, the chotki or komposkini or prayer rope in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the Wreath of Christ in Lutheran Christianity, the Dominican rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Roman Catholic Christianity, the japamala in Buddhism and Hinduism, the Jaap Sahib in Sikhism and the misbaha in Islam.
Origins and etymology
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).