Zen Timepiece Black with Long-resonating Singing Bowl

THE TRADITION OF BELLS, GONGS, AND SINGING BOWLS

Bells, gongs, and chimes are used prominently in both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.  The use of metal alloy bowls for devotional purposes can be traced back to the beginnings of metallurgy in China prior to 1,000 B.C.  The bowl that comes with your Zen Timepiece is modeled after a Japanese “rin gong,” or Keisu, that is periodically struck with a stick to punctuate sutra-reading in Buddhist temples.