Tibetan Mala White Yak Bone Wrist Mala for Meditation with Traditional Tassel This listing is for a white Yak Bone Wrist Mala with 26 Beads including the guru bead. Each bead measures 7mm approximately and hand strung in Kathmandu Nepal by a Tibetan family. Prayer beads usually used for meditation, counting mantras, prostration and so on. Wrist malas are used for prostration especially. Malas are worn on the left wrist while not in use. You can usually see monks using malas in those Tibetan monasteries around the world. In those Tibetan Buddhist philosophy university, monks use the regular mala for debating. Anyway this particular mala is great for doing meditation on impermanent, because it is made from dead animal's bone.