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The bell and the dorje are one tool held in two hands. In Tibetan practice the bell is held in the left hand and the dorje in the right, and they are not used apart: the dorje for method, the bell for the wisdom...

The peach wood sword hangs on the wall and is never drawn. In Chinese tradition peach is the wood that keeps a threshold. The earliest door charms were peach boards, the door gods were painted on peach, and a sword carved from it became...

Two small cymbals, struck edge to edge for one clear note. Tingsha are the practice bells of Tibet, cast heavy for their size so the note rings on long after the strike. In a meditation they mark the beginning and the end. In the...

Six aluminium tubes hung from a black disc, sounding in a light wind. In feng shui the chime is a metal remedy. Of the five elements, metal is the one that cuts and clears, and a metal chime is hung where air has stopped...

Twelve metal tubes on a turned wooden disc, made to ring in the wind. In feng shui a chime is a metal element object, hung where the air has gone still or where a threshold needs marking: a front door, a balcony, the path...

Your zodiac animal on cinnabar red, in a brass case that turns. Cinnabar is the red mineral Chinese tradition has used for protection for longer than it has used ink, ground into the pigment of temple doors and the paste under a seal. Here...

Five brass bells under a pagoda roof, hung from a bagua. In feng shui the wind chime is a metal element object, and metal is the element that moves things along. Hung where air passes, a doorway, a window, the end of a corridor,...

A sword of peachwood with a dragon along the blade and a red tassel. The peachwood sword is the Taoist priest's tool, the one carried into a house that needs clearing. Peach is the wood the tradition holds that spirits will not cross, which...

An ox in flat, folded planes, with its horns swept wide. The ox is the animal of patient work in Chinese tradition, the one that turns the field before anything can grow, and it is kept in the home for steady earnings and for...

A glass gourd filled with gold leaf, standing on a black base. The hulu (葫芦) is the calabash gourd, narrow at the neck and wide in the belly, and it has been kept in Chinese homes for the simple reason that whatever goes in...

A gold ingot in clear amber glass, stamped with the character 福. The yuanbao (元宝) is the boat-shaped ingot that was China's currency for centuries, and it is still the shape money takes in a feng shui room: on the god of wealth's tray,...

A wolf's fang carved in obsidian, a dragon's head cut into the root. A wolf tooth has been worn in China for luck and protection since long before anyone carved one from stone, a hunter's token handed to children to keep them bold. This...

The Buddha in profile, carved into a slab of black obsidian. Obsidian is volcanic glass, formed where molten rock meets cold air, and long kept for grounding and protection. Carved with the face of Shakyamuni, eyes lowered and mouth at rest, it is worn...

Half a face of the Buddha, carved into obsidian clear enough to see through. Ice obsidian is the translucent form of the volcanic glass, smoky brown where ordinary obsidian is black, and it is carved thin here so the light comes through the cheek....

A brass zodiac disc, a turning coin set into its back. The twelve animals each take a year in turn, and carrying your own has been a habit in Chinese households for a long time, most of all in the year it comes round...

The beckoning cat, eyes squeezed shut in a grin, paw waving on sunlight. Maneki-neko started in the shops of Edo Japan and has sat by tills across East Asia ever since, one paw raised to call people in through the door. This one wears...

Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, waving from a red cushion. The elephant-headed god is the one asked first, before any new venture, journey or exam, to clear the road ahead. He holds an axe to cut through what blocks the way, a goad to...

Caishen, the god of wealth, nodding on the dashboard. Caishen (财神) is the figure Chinese households welcome on the fifth day of the new year, when shops reopen and firecrackers go off to call him in. He is shown here as he is on...

A laughing Buddha in a gold robe, fanning himself whenever the sun is out. Budai, the laughing monk, is kept for contentment and easy fortune, the figure who owns nothing but a cloth sack and laughs anyway. This one sits on a small solar...

A small monk with a ringed staff, nodding along wherever the road goes. The staff he carries is a khakkhara, the sounding staff of the travelling monk, its metal rings jangling to warn small creatures off the path and to announce a monk at...