Tibetan Musical Instruments Museum

Rock and Swing Instruments

Tibetan Wind Bells

Handcrafted, solid brass wind bells from the top of the world. These bells are beautiful and are used in Tibet to keep evil devils away from the home.

Eternal Knot Chime
Lamasary Tibetan Wind Bell as used in Tibetan lamasaries. Wonderful rich, otherworldly sound!

Tang Du

The Tang Du is the traditional Buddhist shaman's drum used in Nepali & Tibetan cultural ceremonies. Carved handle, skin heads with rawhide lacing. Comes with playing stick.

Stemmed drum

Stemmed drums of this kind are also used to invoke deities or to provide a gentle musical background for the singing of the orchestra of monks. The monotonous, even beat is ideally suited to accompanying meditation because it provides extremely suggestive and evocative vibrations. The gonkhang of a monastery - the room of the wrathful protective deities - often has its own monk appointed to bang a large drum uninterruptedly to honour and pacify the protective god Mahakala.

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