H1404 S-9 Hammered High Quality Singing Bowl

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Size : 8 "

Weight : 0.760 kg

Singing bowls were traditionally used throughout Asia as part of Bon and Tantric Buddhist sadhana.  Today singing bowls are used worldwide both within and without spiritual traditions, for meditation, music, yoga, trance-induction, relaxation, healthcare, personal well-being and religious practice.  Singing bowls were historically made in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bhutan.  Today they are made in Nepal, India, Japan and Korea. The best known type which we sell are from the Himalayan region and are often called "Tibetan singing bowls."  We believe that the best handmade bowls today are made in Nepal. 

Singing bowls are played by the friction of rubbing a wooden, plastic, or leather wrapped mallet around the rim of the bowl to produce overtones and a continuous 'singing' sound.  Higher quality singing bowls produce a complex chord of harmonic overtones. Singing bowls may also be played by striking with a soft mallet to produce a warm bell tone. Singing bowls are unique because they are multiphonic instruments, producing multiple harmonic overtones at the same time. The overtones are a result of using an alloy consisting of multiple metals, each producing its own overtone.

In Buddhist practice, singing bowls are used as a support for meditation and chanting, trance induction and prayer like other ritual instruments such as gongs and tingsha. To date, no specific texts have been found discussing the use of singing bowls in depth, but paintings and statues dating from several centuries ago depict singing bowls in detail. Singing bowls from at least the 10th-12th century are found in private collections.