Introduction to Tibetan singing bowls
Historians believe that the Tibetan singing bowls has had 2,500 years of history, although there is not much literature, the rich oral history reveals that singing bowls were introduced to Tibet from India, at the eighth century, the century when Indian Buddhism was spreaded to Tibet, therefore singing bowls can be dated back to the 8th discipline. Nowadays, it is not possible to recreate the quality the most original old bowl (the antique bowl), because the skills of original craftmanship has been lost. Traditional old singing bowls are made with seven kinds of metals, including gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead and mercury, these seven metals correspond to seven planets: the Sun, the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn; and also correspond to the Seven Chakras of a human body. Western medicine has come to discover its effective results on mental healing. Quantum physics has proven that the universe are constituted by the vibration and the light, human body is no exception. It is through the resonant of the singing bowls vibration and 70% of the water in the human body to improve the physical condition, its powerful low-frequency resonance penetrates the depths of the body through the resonant energy in the body to improve the stifling. Tibetan singing bowls were initially spreaded to the Western countries, it is now widely popular in both the East and the West, primarily used as the tool for as Meditation, Sound Healing, Sound Massage and Balancing Chakras, it is well recognised traditional forms for therapy and healing.
西藏頌缽簡介
歷史學家相信西藏頌缽(Tibetan Singing Bowl，以下簡稱「頌缽」)己有二千五百年歷史，雖然沒有太多文獻記載，但豐富的口傳歷史讓我們得知頌缽是由印度傳入西藏，這段時期亦是八世紀印度佛教 傳到西藏時候，因此頌缽可追溯至公元八紀。現在我們已無法製造出最原始老缽(old or antique bowl)的質數，因這門工藝已失傳。傳統老缽是用七種金屬所製，包括金(gold)、銀(silver)、銅(copper)、鐵(iron)、錫 (tin)、鉛(lead)、水銀(mercury)，這七種金屬對應著七個星體：太陽、月亮、金星、火星、木星、水星、土星與人體七個脈輪 (chakra)。
聲音療法是最古老的療癒方法之一，西方現代醫學亦漸漸發現聲音在治療和調整身心方面的功效。量子物理學證明了宇宙萬物都是由振動和光構成，人體也不 例外，各個器官都有特定的頻率。頌缽正是透過與人體70%水分的共振來改善身體狀況，它強大的共振低頻能夠滲透身體深處，透過共振來改善體內能量窒礙的情 況。
頌缽傳至西方國家經過整理與分析後，現已普遍流行於東西方國家，主要作為靜心(meditation)、聲音療癒(sound healing)、聲音按摩(sound massage)和平衡脈輪(balancing chakra)的工具，是深受肯定的一種傳統療法。
