About the product:

→ Tibetan Damaru or 'beggar's drum'

🌍 Origin: Nepal

📐 Dimensions: 13 centimeters x 11 x 7

⚖️ Weight: ± 255 grams

🧬 Materials: Wood and brocade fabrics

🎶 Sound type: Warm and medium sound

📦 Packaging: Individually

🎁 Ideal for giving as a gift or treating yourself!

👉 Good to know: Fascinating and mystical ritual drum, beautifully decorated with colorful tassels and fringes, which produces a perfectly balanced sound. Easy to roll up and store in the provided silk brocade case.

The pitch and exact sound of the drum vary depending on humidity conditions, temperature, etc.

The cover color is matched in yellow or red.

Symbolism of the ritual drum: In Buddhist philosophy, sound is considered a symbol of emptiness, shunyata.

The shape of the damaru has its roots in ancient India—where one side of the drum is considered to represent the masculine energy of method and the other the feminine energy of wisdom. The two sides of the drum together also represent relative and ultimate Bodhicitta, the spirit of enlightenment.

In the Tantric Buddhist ritual Chod, the drum instructs and reminds us of impermanence as the sound summons female deities called Dakinis.

Another interpretation of the sound suggests that the drum represents the powers of the rhythm of the heartbeat.

In Hinduism, especially among devotees of Shiva, it is believed that Shiva's beating of a ritual drum produced the very first sound (nada). This first sound was made in the void of nothingness. Shiva began his dance of creation to the rhythm of the drum. From his dance, the world was born.

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