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Welcome to Best Singing Bowls!

You’ve found one of the largest selections of authentic Himalayan and Tibetan antique singing bowls anywhere. Our high-quality collection is sourced and curated by founder Ryan Sarnataro, whose 40+ years of experience is almost unparalleled in the field. Explore and listen to our many hundreds of singing bowls for sale. Use our advanced filters to find your authentic hand hammered singing bowl. We have a wide variety of singing bowl sets for sale. Our Best Singing Bowls precision mallets designed by Ryan add a unique dimension to the wonderful sounds they can play.

 

Each individual bowl has two recordings and many photos. My detailed description characterizing the sound and appearance will help you buy singing bowls online. The website gives you the ability to save your favorites with a one click way to return to them later. As you shop for singing bowls expert help is available from Ryan who personally answers all inquiries. Just use the contact form. You can also add a note to a subscription or saved list of favorites and I’ll see it.

This website has a wealth of information. It ranges from the practical to the esoteric, from the technical to the historical. This deep dive is the equivalent of a book. Many visitors spend days absorbing the material.

I have assembled many custom sets of singing bowls and am available to advise and help assemble one personally for you. If you already have singing bowls these can be integrated into a larger set.

What Our Customers Say

Best Singing Bowls5.0
Based on 88 reviews
Michelle Hamady
3 weeks ago
The Tibetan Wool Mats that Ryan offers are amazing! The 12" size fits my large 11" diameter bowl perfectly. Not only is the backstory of these mats special, but the quality is truly incredible - they’re so soft and luxurious, with vibrant, rich colors. I loved the first one I received so much that I came back to order a few more to use for my crystals and grids :) Ryan is a pleasure to work with, and I’m so grateful to have found these beautiful pieces to add to my home.
Robin Wise
3 weeks ago
I am pleased, thrilled with the bowls I have purchased from you. Your web site includes all the information one needs to find a perfect match; good images, detailed descriptions and especially the high quality audio samples of each bowl. These accurate sound recordings are what connected me to each bowl I purchased. Thank you!
Laura Sage
2 months ago
As a connoisseur of quality antique singing bowls, I have purchased several from this site over the last several years. The quality of the unique sound of the bowls is accurately portrayed in the description and the beauty of the ageing of these bowls connects me to those who have heard them in the past. Customer service is prompt and very helpful. Every purchase has been a good experience!
Mieko Yeh
2 months ago
I had a fantastic experience purchasing three singing bowls from Ryan. I initially chose a few based on the detailed sound files online, then reached out for help selecting a set that would harmonize together (and even work with my wooden tongue drum). Ryan was incredibly generous with his time, guiding me through bowl and mallet choices and offering helpful playing tips. His expertise is clear (he’s played over 40,000 bowls!), and I really appreciated the care he put into curating the set. One of my bowls is estimated to be around 200 years old, which makes them feel even more special. I’ll treasure them for years to come. 10/10 recommend supporting a small business and purchasing your bowls from Ryan :)
Jamie Mullen
4 months ago
Ryan was amazing to work with. His help with me choosing new (old) bowls made the process easy. I felt confident in his selection and his customer service is genuine and real. Shipping was fast and efficient...had my new bowls by the weekend! Ryan is my only trusted choice for authentic singing bowls and the only one I will recommend to colleagues.
Greg Johnson
5 months ago
I've bought several bowls from Ryan / Best Singing Bowls recently, both selections from the website inventory and special requests for specific notes and bowl types. I've found the descriptions of the bowls to be comprehensive and accurate, and the sound files are high fidelity so you can confidently match new bowls to an existing set. The web tools are great for searching the huge inventory, and Ryan is quick to respond to any questions / requests. I appreciate the mallet recommendations for each bowl, and the mallets themselves are high quality. Ryan is great to work with - I'm thrilled with all of my bowls, and am glad that this business exists to make these amazing antiques available.
Carter Lewis
5 months ago
I’ve been enjoying the wonderful waves and good vibrations from an earlier acquisition of an incredible Thadobati Singing Bowl, and after a while it seemed like time to add a new harmonious buddy!  Best Singing Bowls' excellent website allowed me to experiment with hearing their bowl offerings together with the one I had while while playing along.  Now I've got a fine new highly resonant bronze Thadobati Singing Bowl gracing my home. Thank you for making all this possible!
Julia McCutchen
7 months ago
Ryan has been an absolute star at every stage of the journey to find my first singing bowl, and specifically one that truly felt right for me. I can’t thank him enough for going the extra mile to guide me forwards so graciously as I would have given up had it not been for his help. The details on the website and sound clips of each bowl are superb but I wasn’t sure exactly what I was looking for. Ryan’s input led me to clarity and I loved the bowl as soon as I opened the package! It’s already an integral part of my spiritual practice and I will treasure it always. I feel honoured to be the next keeper of a bowl that’s been used for so many years in meditation, ritual and more. The sound has an ancient yet timeless quality about it, and what feels to me like a sacred lineage. What a blessing for such bowls to be cared for and made available by Ryan and Best Singing Bowls. Highly recommended!
Jon Goodhue
11 months ago
Amazing experience! The bell (singing bowl) that we bought exceeded all expectations. Exquisite sound! Ryan's website was very helpful for examinging the bells; images and recordings of each bell helped me experience each bell. We were looking for a bell to be a memorial item for a sangha member who recently passed. Ryan was also super helpful in selecting the accessories. The whole experience was personally very fulfilling. I expect I may buy a bell for myself at some point in the future.
Chris Spicer
1 year ago
Placed an order through the online store. Had the owner, Ryan, directly reach out and chat over the phone to answer questions and arrange shipping details. The bowl arrived as numbered and photographed on the site. The online audio of the bowl and how it sounds is uncanny and a perfect match. Appreciated the rare, and unexpected direct outreach rarely seen these days when ordering online. Encourage anyone interested in what they might see on his site to reach out and ask questions. Will purchase from again, no doubt.
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Genuine Antiques and Exceptional Sound

There is a quality to old handmade sound singing bowls that simply can’t be replicated in shiny, new machine made brass. This website is focused entirely on antiques dating from the 15th to the early 20th century. It isn’t enough to be an antique to qualify as one of the best. Great sound is vital! We go to extraordinary lengths to make sure each and every singing bowl for sale meets our standards for exceptional sound. Some of the magic you will hear as you play the sound clips is due to the attention paid to harmony, balance, complexity and sonic coherence. All the antique singing bowls for sale have uncommon depth as they all were chosen out of the many thousands, even tens of thousands, that flow out of the Himalayas every year. Best Singing Bowls puts a tremendous amount of effort into the procurement process so that we can offer the widest range of Himalayan bowls and excellent value.

Find Your Singing Bowl

We pride ourselves on providing the most comprehensive information and the best tools for for finding exactly what you are looking for. Our powerful filtering gives you the ability limit and expand your choices. The COMPARE feature lets you select up to a dozen authentic antique Himalayan singing bowls and then play them in whatever sequence you wish. This is a great way to hear subtle differences and ring groups together. You can then save your  list and even share it with me for comment

Each Tibetan singing bowl for sale has two sound clips. The first let you hear a simple long strike with a mallet while a second features the rim being played in such a way as to allow you to hear multiple isolated individual tones. Recordings are unenhanced and natural. This way you can clearly hear the pure healing tones for sale. Instead of just one photo there is a gallery with different views and close-ups.

Our extensive FILTERS allow you to narrow your choices by selecting ranges of size, price, notes, octaves and frequency. Filters even allow you to find special features like extra thick bowls, broad trims, circle patterns and Solfeggio tones. You are provided exact weight and measurements. The first tone you hear is labeled by its frequency in Hz and overtones are described by the note and octave. I try to capture the essence in a well written description. The goal is to make sure everyone who selects their own or receives one as a gift is happy with it. People send the nicest email so I know I’m getting it right at least some of the time!

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Free handmade Lokta bark paper

Fascinating Journeys and Meetings with Remarkable Men

It is one thing to go to the library and quite another to journey to the Himalayas. I have traveled extensively throughout the region. My first journeys, long before the birth of this website, were part of an inner voyage. They were in their own ways pilgrimages that took me to out of the way locales. Some of the places I ended up in were meditation caves with their generally friendly guardians, hot springs with snakes slithering up the stone walls and temporary mountaintop gatherings led by local teachers. Decades ago you could still feel the embers from the past, now faded touchstones.

Then there are the commercial journeys focused on finding great old singing bowls. That is a whole story in itself, tracking down the trails by which antiques travel from a dusty back shelf to the market. Over the course of time I’ve had some amazing conversations with experts, enthusiasts and common people about the history of singing bowls. I have spoken with collectors who go out into the countryside on long searches. These men, and they are always men, speak many languages and know the local customs. Maybe surprisingly it is rare they are Buddhist practitioners. They don’t, as a rule speak English so I’m reliant on translators which introduces some fuzziness to the information. There is a lot of mystery here to be unwrapped.

Naturally, I have my own somewhat unique or even quirky take on these amazing objects and how they have made their way into the 21st century. This website is entirely devoted to genuine antiques because, well, I think there is something very special about holding something solid from the past. Of course there is also the smooth feel of old metal and the spectacular sound. Make no mistake, there is a finite quantity of really nice sounding antiques out there with fewer old brass bowls available each successive year.

When I was a kid American coins were still made from real silver and copper. Not only that but in the days before credit cards coins were used so much more heavily than today. All the time you’d get coins in change so worn that you couldn’t even read the date on them. I bring this up because there are some surprising parallels between today’s flow out of the Himalayas and what happened half a century ago in the USA to the common metallic objects you just might find in your pocket. It is an interesting story.

More to Come

I can’t tell you how many ideas I have about singing bowls and how much more information about sound, healing, and history I’d like to share. Some of my best promptings and sources have come from customers. It seems every month somebody comes along to stretch my mind. Well some people write a book, I’m writing a website. I will be expanding my writings on how to use and how to play your Tibetan singing bowl with insight about the interaction of sound, meditation, and prayer. I even have old photos with new publishing permissions waiting to be added to the Tibet section. In addition to static content I also know it would be very helpful if I made a short series of informative videos and especially playing techniques. All I can say is life s busy and I’d love to get to these projects and someday I will – so bookmark this site and come back every once in a while to see what is new.

The Complete Experience

To make your shopping experience complete, you’ll find a wide selection of accessories, including mallets, strikers, mats, and cover cloths. That, too, comes from my deep dive into sound – a wealth of very specific tools for accentuating the best in sound. If you’ve never experienced the precision and versatility of orchestral quality mallets, you’re in for a treat. They are easier to use and you can you’ll get so much more out of your authentic Himalayan singing bowls. We also have custom mallets and strikers made by Nepalese craftsmen to our specifications as well as Frank Perry’s hand turned wands from the south of England. We carefully pack our orders using recycled materials and handmade Nepali Lokta bark paper. Whether you are looking for a beautiful sound, special meditation bowls, sound healing and therapy bowls, or a museum-quality collector’s piece – Best Singing Bowls has one for you.

—Ryan Sarnataro – founder and enthusiast

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