Kurukulle from the Hevajra tantra

[TrimePema]

I was looking at the Uncommon sadhana for Kurukulle from the Hevajra tantra and noticed that it said the recitation should be counted on a mala of red sandalwood. This is very difficult for me to find, I think because there are a lot of fakes.
Does anybody have an authentic red sandalwood mala and know where I can find one?

Or maybe one of you practices this Kurukulle and can tell me if a teacher has told you it doesn't matter what material of mala you use?
I hear bodhi seed is said to have all the qualities of the different materials combined, so maybe that would be okay?

[tobias]

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But I think sandalwood is never really red. It's just a difference to take black sandalwood or "red" sandalwood that is more a redly brown

greetings
tobias

[WeiHan]

i think genuine red sandal wood is supposed to be very expensive and quite impossible to get nowaday at a reasonable price. I think bodhi seed is a good choice but nowaday it is also getting forbiddingly expensive. Red coral can be used but it is also very expensive. I have heard that red carnelian can be used for Kurukulla.

[crazy-man]

Red Saga seed is ideal to recite Kurukulle mantra as it is love seed. It attracts love and and instills passion

http://www.nalandatrading.net/Kurukulle ... b-1803.htm
http://www.nalandatrading.net/Hand-Carv ... b-2515.htm

http://prayingmala.blogspot.de/2014/05/ ... -mala.html
http://abhidharma.ru/A/Tantra/Content/Tara/0008.pdf

[etinin]

Red Saga seed is ideal to recite Kurukulle mantra as it is love seed. It attracts love and and instills passion

http://www.nalandatrading.net/Kurukulle ... b-1803.htm
http://www.nalandatrading.net/Hand-Carv ... b-2515.htm

http://prayingmala.blogspot.de/2014/05/ ... -mala.html
http://abhidharma.ru/A/Tantra/Content/Tara/0008.pdf

crazy-la,
any other commentaries on other 13 golden dharma practices like this pdf you linked?
thank you for this resource.

[ClearblueSky]

Actual "red sandalwood" won't be an option, but bodhi seed is good, coral is great (red coral would be ridiculously expensive, but there are non-endagendered pink or bamboo coral with red dye malas available). Carnelian/other red stones would be considered good as well, and I'm guessing "fragrant woods" like even normal sandalwood might be good too, though I can't say for sure which ones.

[crazy-man]

any other commentaries on other 13 golden dharma practices like this pdf you linked?

http://read.84000.co

http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/lamdre.pdf
http://read.84000.co/browser/released/U ... 79-011.pdf

[mahabuddha]

I would ask your teacher. I would assume that it doesn't matter.