Tibetans have never worn jewelry just so as to decorate themselves. Tibetan jewelry can offer as amulets, as type of the financial institution that is always along with you, or being an indicator of sociable status.
Most jewelry produced from gold and silver - gold or silver - was regarded as auspicious and luck getting in Tibet. In the south Tibet it had been considered misfortune for any lady to visit without her hair decorations. Up to nineteen fifties this brought to women over sleeping their enormous hair pieces.
There have been additionally a couple of products which were worn particularly to protect against spiritual evil like the huge ivory rings worn around the thumb from the left hands by males to safeguard them against ghouls. Tibetan belief was that if you don't have pierced ears risked being reborn like a donkey. This brought males who normally used one earring within the left ear also to put on a little stud of turquoise within the right.
Most jewelry produced from gold and silver - gold or silver - was regarded as auspicious and luck getting in Tibet. In the south Tibet it had been considered misfortune for any lady to visit without her hair decorations. Up to nineteen fifties this brought to women over sleeping their enormous hair pieces.
There have been additionally a couple of products which were worn particularly to protect against spiritual evil like the huge ivory rings worn around the thumb from the left hands by males to safeguard them against ghouls. Tibetan belief was that if you don't have pierced ears risked being reborn like a donkey. This brought males who normally used one earring within the left ear also to put on a little stud of turquoise within the right.