Buddhayana – Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound For Meditation
BRIEFING:
The Master of Tibetan Singing Bowls:
Shree Krishna Shahi was the first person in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal to work with singing bowls. He learned about singing bowls from his adopted Tibetan grandfather, a Lama who came to Nepal for several years during the early eighties. Shree’s first encounter with Tashi Lama occurred in 1981. The old monk frequented Swoyambhu, Nepal, every winter, where he rested for several months before his return trip to Tibet. At the time of their meeting, Tashi Lama was carrying five Tibetan singing bowls. He showed Shree the bowls and taught him how to play, meditate and relax with them. Shree was fascinated, bought the bowls and practiced.
The Lama was an expert at treating ‘typical Tibetan diseases’ backache, headache, muscular and knee problems, etc. He recognized Shree’s talent and ‘adopted’ him as his grandson and chose to teach him all he knew, Over the winters to come, Shree learnt from Tashi Lama the traditional Tibetan secrets of singing healing and therapy, Shree began to understand chakras, planets, metals, colors and tones. He learn how to arrange the singing bowls on the body and to use cymbals. The Lama taught Shree how to work with singing bowl chakra sets of seven and four planet bowls. In 1985, the Lama came for the last time, one year later, other pilgrims reported that he had died. The Master of Tibetan Singing Bowls.