What Are Singing Tibetan Bowls?

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Singing BowlSinging bowls are ritual object used in the Himalayan region since ancient times. Singing bowls are renowned for their healing and relaxing sound quality. They are idiophonic instruments that broadly fit into the family of bells and gongs. Every singing bowl is unique, and their sound quality depends upon a variety of factors including the combinations of metal, thickness of the bowl and the shape and size of the bowl.



It is true that the quality of sound of the ancient bowls cannot be reproduced today. The singing bowls are considered to be a lost art for atleast 50 years and the method followed to make the singing bowl is thought to be lost as well. According to the analysis of old bowls, it reveals that they were made from a variety of metal alloys consisting silver, gold, nickel, copper, zinc, antimony, tin, lead, cobalt, bismuth, arsenic, cadmium, and iron. It is also believed that the real antique bowls also consist of metal taken from meteorites. However, the manufacturing methods used today can produce bowls with beautiful tones. Today, bowls are both hand-hammered and machine-made, or a combination of the two. Modern bowls are most likely to be made of a type of bronze called “bell metal” composed of a mix of copper and tin. The best modern bowls are considered to come from Nepal.



There are two methods of playing singing bowls, either by rubbing a mallet around the rim or by striking the side of the bowls with the mallet. Both the methods produce quite distinctive sounds. The sound of the singing bowl starts peacefully and builds up steadily. The prime idea is deep relaxation that provides you to contact with the inner self. Sound is vibration, and that vibration moves throughout our body. The sound vibration of the singing bowl arouses cellular memory and permeates the sensation with the healing energy. Some of them also vibrate with certain altered brain states. The sound resonating from the singing bowl is very pure and potent in centering the mind and the body. These sounds have a profound impact on energy body of living beings, but also on the environment in general. The legends say that the secrets of sound coming from the singing bowl yield so much power that they must be kept hidden.


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