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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Use of Beads at Prayers |
 | | Among the Buddhists, whose religion is of Brahminic origin, various prayer-formulas are said or repeated with the aid of beads made of wood, berries, coral, amber, or precious metals and stones. | | | The use of beads among pagans is undoubtedly of greater antiquity than their Christian use; but there is no evidence to show that the latter is derived from the former, any more than there is to establish a relation between Christian devotions and pagan forms of prayer. | | | The use of these Islamic beads appears to have been established as early as the ninth century independently of Buddhistic influences. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02361c.htm
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| | Designing Cultural Rosaries and Meaning Malas to Sustain Associations within the Pattern that Connects |
| | The rosaries of the Catholic Church are of this type. | | | Rosaries are very interesting "memory-points" for meditation, with each meditation parceled out to individual memory beads according to the five senses to be applied distributively to the image of the memory-point. | | | In Catholic usage, the rosary is made up of two things: mental prayer and vocal prayer.Mental prayer is none other than meditation of the chief mysteries of the life, death and glory of Jesus Christ and of the Holy Mother. |
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http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/cultrose.php
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| | PRAYER BEADS |
| | Judaism rejects rosaries because of the talismanic inferences and the belief one must address God directly. | | | The Buddhist rosary was never popular with the Chinese. | | | Japanese around the sixth century AD were introduced to rosary beads and Buddha. |
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http://www.beadshows.com/ibs/articles/prayer.html
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| | Confessional Agencies |
| | Roman Catholic trained philosopher and theologian Urbano A. Galan answers criticism of Scientology and argues that Scientology is a legitimate religion (posted by Church of Scientology International). | | | Official website of current Sikh leader Sri Guru Granth Sahib meticulously designed to inspire devotion offers video and audio introduction to Sikh gurus and practice, key quotations and a Sikh rosary of divine wisdom. |
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http://virtualreligion.net/vri/groups.html
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