Handmade Premium Bhutanese Golden Wood Chod Damaru Ritual Item

[size & weight]: Diameter approx.: 18.6cm

Weight about: 400+g

[Material]: Premium Bhutanese golden wood and goat skin are the main raw materials

Handmade in Nepal

【introduce】:

Damaru Fabricated according to ancient tradition

The Chod Damaru (Choda) is the central instrument of Chod. It is a sacred Vajrayana implement that, if made correctly, has extraordinary properties:

• It is the dwelling place of the divine feminine, the Dakini;
• It is itself synonymous with the enlightened forms of Prajnaparamita, Vajrayogini and Troma.
• The damaru is the sound of Sunyata or complete openness, a bridge that connects us to the essential source, the basis of being that is beyond name and form.
• It is also a unique channel for the profound blessings and power of the lineage and a portal for the mystical forces that protect the dharma.
• The damaru is thus the sound of the dharma itself and a proclamation of the fearlessness of the solitary yogin or yogini.
• All this being so, an important and deep relationship comes to exist between the Chod practitioner their Chod drum.

Every part of the drum has both symbolic meaning and energetic function and so have to be made according to exacting specifications. Until recently, the art of making these according to the ancient Vajrayana requirements was almost extinct. But fortunately, our Bhutanese fabricator is a Chod practitioner himself who upholds the highest standards of workmanship and respect for sacred implements.

These Choda will last a lifetime as a fitting vessel for taming our own mind and that of suffering sentient beings. As sacred works of art, they can be passed on with pride to future generations of practitioners!