Best Singing Bowls specializes in providing great sounding antique Himalayan and Tibetan singing bowls for sale at fair prices to customers worldwide. Founder Ryan Sarnataro has over 40 years’ experience with antique singing bowls, almost unparalleled in the field. Ryan does all the buying, takes all the photos [even the three orange clad Sadhus], makes all the recordings and has written all the articles. I also deal with each order personally and answer all inquiries.
In my many trips to the Himalayas I have cultivated relationships providing uncommon access to many of the best antiques flowing out of the countryside. My experience with singing bowls, having rung hundreds of thousands of them, is deeply visceral. This ensures that any bowl you see here is genuine with certificates of authenticity an available option.
I maintain a curated stock of thousands of antique bowls, undoubtedly the largest collection of such high quality pieces in the United States. It is the equivalent of a singing bowl museum except much larger. Included in that stock are ones that I bought many years ago. The 400-500 bowls with photos and individual sound clips you can see on the site today are a small subset of what is available. That vast backstock allows me to be extremely specific in responding to requests and custom set assembly. Not every bowl here is “the best.” Then again, even the less than greatest bowls here are REALLY nice. I don’t buy anything I don’t like. Some have quirks and flaws, some play better this way or that, some sing longer than others, some are simply exceptional. What you can count on is my professional opinion on such matters in the detailed product descriptions I write while listening deeply to each bowl and deconstructing its soundscape. Finally I am here to answer questions, advise and especially assemble flowing sets of singing bowls. Whether three bowls or a hundred, we can put together amazing world class collections. I can work from a general idea or exact specifications. Just read a few of the reviews from people who have worked with me..
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.
