Tulsi Bracelets

Tulsi Bracelets — 29 pieces in the VIZHEE Bracelets collection. Wrist beads of tulsi wood, the holy basil sacred to Vishnu, worn as an everyday extension of the tulsi mala. Tulsi (holy basil, Ocimum tenuiflorum) is sacred in Vaishnava tradition, associated with Vishnu and Krishna and worshipped as an earthly form of a devotee of Vishnu. Tulsi-wood bracelets extend the same material used in the traditional 108-bead tulsi mala into a shorter, everyday wrist piece. Wearing tulsi is traditionally understood among Vaishnava devotees as a mark of devotion and surrender to Krishna or Vishnu, carried through the day rather than only during seated chanting. A band or strand of beads, metal, or cord worn around the wrist — one of the oldest and most cross-culturally worn jewelry forms.