What is their secret ?

Historians believe the most ancient Tibetan Singing Bowls to have appeared around 2.500 years ago. There is not much written data about their manufacturing in the old days to make it possible for us to know exactly the age of the ancient art of the making of Tibetan Singing Bowls – the records state that Tibetan Singing Bowls have been around from the 8th Century AD.

Luckily for us, Indians have a very strong oral tradition and with all their beautiful lore love have managed to pass around stories which relate to the usage of the singing bowls. Those stories also teach us that the singing bowls arrived to Tibet, from India, just around the same time the Buddhist master Padmasambhava, introduced Buddhism to the country. - In Tibet they perfected the art and gave way to the famous Tibetan Singing Bowls.

The Tibetan Singing Bowls have a striking curiosity around them- no matter how hard modern manufacturers try, they have not yet been able to emulate the fabrication and the mysterious sounds of the ancient singing bowls. Thus, the fabrication of the original Tibetan singing bowl is considered a lost art!


Aside from the well know 12 different metals, used in the fabrication of the Tibetan singing bowls, lore tells that in some ancient bowls, metals taken from meteorites could be found.

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