12 inch, Tibetan Handmade Gongs, Medicine Buddha Design, High Quality Design, Wind Gong, Flat Gong

☛ Tibetan Handmade Gongs, Medicine Buddha Design, High Quality Design
Item Code: HME25815
Weight: 1017 Grams
Size CM : 31
Material: Bronze
Availability: Available
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☛ MEDICINE BUDDHA : Brief Introduction
Bhaisajyaguru is known as Medicine Buddha. He is also called the healing Buddha. He is said to dispense spiritual medicine when properly worshiped. It is even believed that an efficacious cure may be accomplished by merely touching the image. In Tibet, he may be represented either as a buddha or as a Bodhisatwa. As a buddha, he has the urn (small round bulge or protuberance above the bridge of the nose) the fourth superior marks of a buddha Ushinisha (A Buldge of protuberance in the skull of the buddha the first superior marks of a buddha ) short and curly hair. He wears a monastic robe, is seated with the legs crossed. His left hand lying in his lap in meditation mudra, usually holds the medicine bowl, while the right hand in charity mudra hold either a branch with fruit, or the fruit alone, of the myrobalan, as medicinal plant found in India and other tropical countries.

☛ SB HIGH QUALITY ETCHING CARVING : About this etching carving
This Gong has a very high quality of etching and carving, with the normal etching and carving you may have noticed that the lines are very are they are painted with a thicker brush hence the lines are thicker. But for this Gong, we have assigned a fine artist of thangka painting to do the drawing for us. hence the lines are dinner and well detailed.

☛ GONG: WHAT IS A GONG?
A gong is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet. The gong traces its roots back to the Bronze Age around 3500 BC. The term gong originated in Java. Scientific and archaeological research has established that Burma, China, Java and Annam were the four main gong manufacturing centres of the ancient world. The gong later found its way into the Western World in the 18th century when it was also used in the percussion section of a Western-style symphony orchestra. A form of bronze cauldron gong known as a resting bell was widely used in ancient Greece and Rome, for instance in the famous Oracle of Dodona, where disc gongs were also used.