Tibetan Mala Large Wood Wrist Mala Bracelet with Silk Mala Pouch Mala beads are usually used for meditation, counting mantras, prostration and so on. You can usually see lots of Tibetan buddhist monks and lay persons use malas while they go around stupas or doing prostrations all over Tibet, Nepal and India. In the monasteries monks use mala for Buddhist Phylosophical debading. You wear it around your left wrist while the mala not in use.