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means A bowl-shaped bell, usually metal, that you play by striking it or running a mallet around its rim so it sustains a ringing, meditative tone rather than a single strike-and-stop chime.

from These bowls descend from Himalayan and East Asian bronze-working traditions, often linked to Tibetan, Nepali, and broader Himalayan Buddhist practice, made from hammered or cast metal alloys. The popular story sells them as ancient, mystically tuned 'Tibetan singing bowls' used in millennia-old ritual — but many bowls sold under that name are actually modern manufactures made for the global wellness and meditation market, their 'singing' produced by simple rim friction (the same physics that makes a wet finger sing on a wine glass). The term 'singing bowl' itself is a modern English descriptive label, not an ancient name translated intact.