The mined ore was artificially ground and soaked in a kind of Chinese herbal medicine containing the extinct natural resin of white coconut flower. While chanting, the Lama drew lines with his eyes. After lighting, wearing and blessing, the objects on the Lama turned to ashes (cremation), leaving only the dzi beads. Due to the high temperature heating during cremation, all the dzi beads infiltrated into the ore. This is a dzi bead.

Most of the dzi beads circulating in the market are hand-made, and their patterns are painted with lead-containing paint and then fired at high temperature. Different patterns have different meanings. Tianzhu is made of nine-eye shale, chalcedony and agate. Glass beads and plastic beads are also used as raw materials.

In addition, many agate pearls on the market claim to be "Tibetan dzi beads" whether they come from Tibet or not. After years of offering incense, it is called magic beads. The rest are called Zhu. There is also a saying called type one and type two. The former costs tens of thousands, while the latter costs only a few hundred yuan.

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The representative record of the performance of Buddha beads in worshipping Buddha and Bodhisattva is that in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong (AD 64 1 year), when Princess Wencheng married Tubo Zampa, she abandoned the sacrifice and brought a Buddha statue from India as a dowry. Finally, this Buddha statue is located in the Sakyamuni Hall of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet.

This Buddha statue is inlaid by Tibetan people with more than 100 kinds of dzi beads, including three nine-eyed dzi beads, three two-eyed dzi beads, Aquarius dzi beads (or fairy bottles), tiger-patterned dzi beads and other striking dzi beads. This Buddha statue is placed in the Sakyamuni Hall of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.