
Crystal Singing Bowls
Crystal singing bowls are made from 99.992% pure crushed quartz and heated to about 4000 degrees in a centrifugal mold.
They are available in clear or frosted bowls in a variety of sizes. The bowls emit a powerful and pure resonance. The larger bowls are much more reverberant, with the tone lingering longer, simply because of the size and amount of crystal. The sound emitted from Crystal Singing bowls is known to have healing effects.
Some crystal singing bowls even harmonize with other bowls, and when played simultaneously, the effect is exquisite and synergistic.
Read the full story
Himalayan bowls popularly known as ‘Tibetan singing bowls’ due to the popularity of the ones hailing from Tibet; are standing bells resting at the bottom surface. The rims and sides are struck with a leather or plastic mallet to produce beautiful sounds to induce trance in Buddhist practice.
Effects of Tibetan singing bowl – Singing bowls of high quality produce complex and harmonic overtones. When struck with a soft mallet, they produce the tone of a warm bell. In Asian countries where Buddhist religion is practiced, during prayers, the sounds they produce are meant to induce hypnotic meditative trance and are believed to be a method to get blessings from the spiritual world.
Read the full story
Posted on 01 March 2009
Tags: Buddhism, Healing
Welcome to Tibetan Singing. This is the first kick off post.