How Hindu and Buddhist Malas became Muslim Tasbihs and Catholic Rosaries!

[vhaidrauoswir]

So everyone knows that monasticism came from Buddhism and was later adapted by Christianity. But did you know that prayer beads, the ropes used to count prayers also came from Buddhism, and its predecessor, Hinduism? In fact they did not come to Christianity until after Islam had borrowed this practice from Buddhism even!

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[anaxios1]

Actually, you're wrong. Catholic rosaries are derived from a western variant upon the Eastern Orthodox kombosxini, "prayer rope," which has its origins in the Egyptian Christian ascetics of the deserts. Christianity did not borrow anything from Buddhism, and absolutely nothing from Islam. If anything, Buddhism rose on its own, and Islam, more likely, was influenced by the Eastern Orthodox desert seers they encountered immediately in their expansion.

[vhaidrauoswir]

DO you have any proof of that? I would be interested in any documentation of this.

[anaxios1]

Well, come on. Before I show you any "proof," you might as well show me "proof" to substantiate your daring claim that the Catholic rosary is derived from the Vedic tradition of japa mala's. How would this even, at all, occur? Show me the contacts that would have administered such influence. It is only reasonable to assume that Catholic rosaries have some origin in the Eastern Christian kombosoxini since both the Catholics and Orthodox share a common Tradition pre-1054 schism