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Product Description
The sound created by the bell is a plea to the gods/whom the
drums have called down to earth/to remain here. Ritual bell with
cloisonne inlay. Lovely sound for meditation practice or place at
home/temple entrance. People arriving for blessing ring bell to tell the
local deity of their arrival to be blessed. Garuda Wind Bell/holding
power over Nagas. Garuda means well-winged, having good wings. Like the
Nagas, they combine characteristics of animals & divine beings,
& may be considered to be among the lowest devas. The exact size of
the garuda is uncertain, but its wings are said to have a span of many
miles. This may be a poetic exaggeration, but it is also said that when a
garuda's wings flap, they create hurricane-like winds that darken the
sky & blow down houses. High winds like these blow across Tibet most
afternoons, when temperatures reach 100 degrees & fall to freezing
at night. A human being is so small compared to a garuda that a man can
hide in the plumage of one without being noticed. They are also capable
of tearing up entire banyan trees from their roots & carrying them
off. The garudas have kings & cities, at least some of them have the
magical power of changing into human form when they wish to have
dealings with people. On some occasions Garuda kings have had romances
with human women in this form. Their dwellings are in groves of the
silk-cotton tree. The garudas are enemies to the Nagas, a race of
intelligent serpent- or dragon-like beings, whom they hunt. The garudas
at one time caught the nagas by seizing them by their heads; but the
nagas learned that by swallowing large stones, they could make
themselves too heavy to be carried by the garudas, wearing them out
& killing them from exhaustion. This secret was divulged to one of
the garudas by the ascetic Karambiya, who taught him how to seize a naga
by the tail & force him to vomit up his stone. In the Mahasamyatta
Sutta, the Buddha is shown making temporary peace between the Nagas
& the garudas.