A Rare Damaru Sino-Tibetan

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A damaru is a small hand held drum used in Buddhist ritual and meditation practices. A pair of beaters attached to strings would have been fastened to the central âwaistâ and would beat the two drum skins as the wrist was rotated back and forth. It was believed that the prayers inscribed on the inside of the drum (invisible when the skins were attached) were projected through the cosmos with the beating of the drum. As it is very unusual for such Tibetan drums to have been made of exotic and expensive timbers such as Huanghuali, it is most likely that this piece was made in China and sent to Tibet as a special tribute or gift.