About the product:

→ Name/Type: Tibetan Damaru or 'beggar's drum' - A fascinating and mystical ritual drum, beautifully decorated with colorful tassels and fringes, that produces a perfectly balanced sound. Easy to roll up and store in the included silk brocade case.

🌍 Origin: Nepal

📐 Dimensions: 13 x 11 x 7 centimeters

⚖️ Weight: ± 255 grams

🧬 Materials: Wood - Brocade fabric

🎶 Sound type: Warm and medium tone

📦 Packaging: Sold individually

🎁 Ideal as a gift or a treat for yourself!

🛕 History and symbolism

In Buddhist philosophy, sound is considered a symbol of emptiness, shunyata.

The damaru's shape 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 Bodhicitta, the ultimate and relative state of enlightenment.

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

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

In Hinduism, particularly among devotees of Shiva, it is believed that the beating of a ritual drum by Shiva 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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