Singing Bowl
The singing bowl is a metal bowl of the Himalayan Buddhist world that produces a long, sustained tone when its rim is rubbed with a wooden striker or struck, and it is used in offerings, meditation and the opening and closing of ceremonies. The bowls are cast in bronze and brass bell-metal alloys, often in the workshops of the Kathmandu valley, and many carry embossed decoration or an incised invocation such as the six-syllable mantra Om Mani Padme Hum. Their use in ritual is old, though the precise history is uncertain, and the bowls became widely known outside the Himalayas only from the lat