Necklace with seed syllable Tam, fire-gilded · CHARU × Khyenle

Fine pendant: On a reddish-shimmering bronze background stands the seed syllable Tam in fire-gilt gold, set in a smooth silver bezel. The contrast of warm copper tone, matte silver, and deep golden yellow makes the small 1.5 cm surface the true highlight of the piece. The pendant hangs on a brown, braided cord, the length of which can be adjusted.

Tam is the seed syllable of Green Tara. In the Tibetan tradition, she is considered the one who liberates from fear and danger. In her depiction, she sits with one foot lowered, ready to rise immediately. Seed syllables are not ordinary words, but condensed symbols: they represent a figure, a lineage, and their meaning, and appear in manuscripts, on buildings, on ritual objects, and on the body.

The pendant is cast in Khyenle bronze, an alloy of brass and copper with small proportions of gold, silver, tin, and zinc. The tradition dates back to the 19th century and the workshops around Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo in Dzongsar, in the Dege County of Kham; the name connects the Khyentse lineage with the bronze craft. Each piece undergoes six steps: wax model, mold, melting out, casting, manual reworking, and polishing. The manual finishing takes up the majority of the time.

The necklace is delivered in an elegant wooden gift box.

CHARU connects designers with craft cooperatives in the Tibetan cultural region and develops products from this collaboration that bring traditional techniques into everyday life.

Pendant Ø 1.5 cm · Circumference approx. 45 cm, adjustable · 10 g incl. cord · Li-Ma bronze, silver, fire-gilt · Handmade in Tibet