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History of the Singing Bowl
In the beginning wind (lung) moved the Great Silence and created Sound. By it's vibration, sound produced both subtle and gross forms. In Creative Myths worldwide, sound is recognised as the womb from which the Visible and Invisible emerged.
In the 6th Century BC, the Chinese were well known for their craftsmanship and worked with metals, creating tuning bells. Metal bowls were known and used in the 11th Century BC and are the oldest objects described as 'singing bowls', although it is purported that singing bowls were around in shamanic times.
In ancient and remote China, the bells, or bowls as they are also known by, were used in ceremony. They were hung from trees, homes and temples. Their tone was held in great esteem for calling on the supernatural, manifesting the Universal essence to encourage crops to grow and abundance to grace the village and temples.
The mountainous inaccessibility of Tibet is possibly one reason why the powers of the singing bowl/ bells has been so well preserved. Here, where there is silence and contemplation, man can be at one with nature and himself, drawing close connections to the spirit world where the main deities of the Bon Pos were originally those of the sky, the embodiments of space and light and of infinity and purity.
Over time, these sacred sound ceremonies leaked out bringing the healing qualities of the singing bowl to the rest of the world to human and animal kind.
