MAMMOTH HEALING TIBETAN SINGING BOWL -A CHAKRA

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MAMMOTH HEALING TIBETAN SINGING BOWL -A CHAKRA

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Sold Date: 08/05/2008
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

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This bowl has a very mesmerizing kind of sound. The sound is perfect. This deal includes the bowl and a stick as shown in the pictures. I have personally used the bowl and have found it to be beneficial for both mind and body (if you know how to play it properly). I have other new bowls (not antique) also, for a very reasonable price. Contact me for wholesale lots as well.

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Circumference: Approx. 34.5 inch

Diameter: Approx. 11 inch

Height: Approx. 4.9 inch

Retail value: Around US$ 1,150

Item location: Hamden, CT

Place of origin: Tibet

Giant size with a very healing sound.

Excellent sound; Relaxing and a pain killer.

A very easy to play, meditating item.

The sound and the vibration last up to 55secs.

Absolute handmade with visible hammer markings.

No extra design added to interrupt the quality of the sound.

HISTORY OF SINGING BOWLS:

Singing bowls are used as a support for meditation, trance induction and prayer. For example, Chinese Buddhists use the singing bowl to accompany the wooden fish during chanting, striking it when a particular phrase in a sutra, mantra or hymn is sung. In Japan and Vietnam, singing bowls are similarly used during chanting and may also mark the passage of time or signal a change in activity.

The use of singing bowls in Tibet is the subject of much debate and many stories. Some people say they were used for meditation while others say they were magical tools for transformation of self and of matter.

As Perry (1996) and Jansen (1992) state, little is known in western scholarship regarding Himalayan singing bowls. It is likely they were used in rituals, having a specific function like other instruments (such as the ghanta, tingsha and shang). The oral and written traditions from the Himalayan region are vast and largely unknown in the west. To date, no specific texts have been found discussing the use of singing bowls in depth, but according to Joseph Feinstein of Himalayan Bowls (2006), 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. The tradition may date significantly earlier since bronze has been used to construct musical instruments since ancient times. Bronze bells from Asia have been discovered since as early as the 8th-10th century BCE (Feinstein, 2006).

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. Audio Sample (helpâe¢info) Genuine antique 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. Antique singing bowls are unique because they are multiphonic instruments, producing multiple harmonic overtones at the same time. Antique singing bowls are the fruit of sophisticated metallurgy, techniques currently deemed lost and provide a unique study in the Timeline of materials technology as do high quality bells and other instruments. The overtones are a result of their metalworking and fabrication which consists of multiple metals and were produced by a sophisticated hammered or beaten technique with . The majority of new bowls are cast metal and not hammered and beaten with Metalworking hand tools, and produce only one tone.

Both Antique and New Bowls are widely used as an aid to meditation (see the "Meditation and the brain" section in Meditation) and as a tool for trance induction. They are also used in yoga, music therapy, sound healing, religious services, and performance and for personal enjoyment.

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HOW SINGING BOWLS ARE MADE:

The making process of hand hammered (beaten) singing bowls involves a traditional system of making singing...