About Us....

Welcome to  Sakura Designs, LLC, and our web shop BUDDHISTMALA.COM.™ Through many years of kind support, we are the largest US Mala Shop on the internet, thank you! Our small artisan company of meditation practitioners are from the Rocky Mountains of Boulder, Colorado. We offer personalized prayer bead designs and a vast selection of ready to ship malas.

We have been handcrafting malas since 1994, and take great care in creating each and every piece. Our malas can be made one at a time, to order.  We use real, semiprecious stones*, fine authentic sandalwoods and ambers, as well as traditional Tibetan Bodhi Seeds. Orders are processed through the Boulder County Mental Health Center work program. Enjoy our site, and we'd really love to hear from you  anytime with questions, comments, feedback or greetings!

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Testimonials

Please be sure to visit our Testimonial Page, and if you would like to ask any questions about our craftsmanship or have a reference from from previous customers, let us know!

Your Mala-

All of the full sized (108 bead) Buddhist malas that we hand craft, here in the US, are offered a complimentary mala bag, and are finished with an authentic three holed guru bead and tassel. (Imported Malas are offered malas bags separately) Sakura Designs malas are then carefully packaged. It is traditional to have your mala blessed by your spiritual teacher if you have one. From time to time, you can "purify" your mala by holding it over burning incense, a native American Sage smudge-stick or juniper.

Why We Make Malas

We offer economical and well crafted natural gemstone malas, and have been trading in beads for decades. It is our intention that we help fellow dharma friends make their own special mala, and through it's use, create calmness that frees the user from suffering. With small steps, we can all work toward creating peace." 

If you would like us to create something not listed, we offer a few custom design options.

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Publicity

Reviews from the Boulder Weekly: 10 Unique Gifts Think outside the gift box for a present they won’t soon forget- By Elizabeth Miller "There’s nothing quite like the holidays... These mantra beads (technically called japa mala, but also known as prayer beads or worry beads) float around many a yoga studio or even jewelry shops, certainly the Asian-influenced gift shops. Strings of 108 beads, they’re designed for use in meditation and mantra recitation, typically of the kind of Sanskrit phrases that lead to eventual enlightenment. And really, whether you’re lighting up a Menorah or a Christmas tree, isn’t enlightenment what we’re all after? The beads, often made from wood or seeds, are pretty in their own right. Just like anything else you’d like to learn these days, YouTube videos can show you how to use them."

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*Buddhistmala.com Guarantee- We want you to be pleased with your purchase. If you are unsatisfied with your mala for any reason, let us know within 10 days of receipt, and we gladly accept it back. If your mala, made by us, breaks within one month of purchase from normal use, we will restring it for free, less shipping to and fro.

All Some malas are made to order, and as with all natural stones, actual colors will vary slightly from web images. Custom design customers can specify the color of the three "marker beads"  used to divide Mala and tassel color. We will do our best to accommodate custom requests with materials available. Each piece is considered a "work of art" and slight substitutions with the marker bead and tassel colors are sometimes offered at the designers' discretion.  Malas will be sent as close to the web image as possible depending on available materials, if no custom requests are required. Complimentary Mala bag is offered in assorted colors, and we make the best effort to choose a harmonious color and style.

A+ Rating for the BBB !

Sakura Designs, LLC, a registered trade name, by the Colorado Secretary of the State and is an A rated member of the Better Business Bureau.

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