Chi Juo-hsin, a writer at the National Palace Museum's Department of Antiquities, notes that the Manchurians of the Ching Dynasty were devout followers of Lamaism, and the death of a Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama or other religious leader from the Tibetan and Mongolian regions, and the birth days of Ching emperors and empresses, would be marked by presenting strings of prayer beads in amber or coral.
故宮博物院器物處編輯嵇若昕指出，清朝的滿洲人篤信喇嘛教，當蒙古與西藏地區的達賴、班禪等宗教領袖圓寂，或清帝、后生日時，會進貢以蜜臘、琥珀、珊瑚為材質串成的念珠，以示祝福。