I've decided to do project 365.
It's an exercise to help me look around more. These images might be dull at times, but so is life.

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nicrap said…
Looks like a bishop [chess piece] to me ... what is it?
Jen said…
It's a Tibetan singing bowl, used for meditation. The wooden thing is used to "ring" the bowl. It makes a beautiful sound.
Thersites said…
still looks like a bishop to me... ;)
Thersites said…
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nicrap said…
still looks like a bishop to me...

lol.
I suspect it was more a "prayer" bowl... with the prayer circumscribing the bowl, and being "sung" to the gods with each rotation... ;P
The inscription is written in concentric circles rather like a prayer inside a Tibetan prayer wheel. As the bowl is rotated, the prayer is released.

I love inter-passive objects!
Zizek says that the "fault" of Europeans is that they look for their "lost" sacred knowledge in "others" while the Tibetans look for it within themselves.
nicrap said…
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nicrap said…
Too sweeping, won't you say? Such statements tell you very little but hide a lot — for instance, is there a monolithic european tradition?
Thersites said…
I'd have to ask io. Or europa. ;)
Ducky's here said…
Religion is sound.

That was coopted by a New Age movement but I believe it's long been germane to Tibetan Buddhism.

Ever listen to a Zen exorcism?
Jen said…
It's not interpassive, FJ. It's very active. Payer is about changing the heart of the pray-er, not asking og God.
Thersites said…
How "active" a form of praying is a Tibetan prayer wheel?

How about prayer flags?
Thersites said…
Of course, I find the consequences of the way atheists pray even more interesting...
Jen said…
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_bowl

More of a meditation. ..
Jen said…
Ducky, can you give me a link?
Ducky's here said…
Unfortunately out of print

It's quite an ear opener if you ever see it at a used store for a reasonable price.

There are quite a few under "Tibet" but I am not familiar with them.

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