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'''Damaru''' (Skt. ''ḍāmaru''; Tib. [[ཌཱ་མ་རུ་]], ང་ཆུང་, or, རྔེའུ་ཆུང་, [[Wyl.]] ''nga chung'' or ''rnge’u chung'') — a small double-sided hand-drum sometimes made from the tops of two skulls and therefore translated as 'skull-drum'. The damaru is held in the right hand, and is frequently paired with the [[bell]], held in the left hand.
'''Damaru''' (Skt. ḍāmaru; Tib. [[ཌཱ་མ་རུ་]], ང་ཆུང་, or, རྔེའུ་ཆུང་ [[Wyl.]] ''nga chung'' or ''rnge’u chung'') — a small double-sided hand-drum sometimes made from the tops of two skulls and therefore translated as 'skull-drum'. The damaru is held in the right hand, and is frequently paired with the [[bell]], held in the left hand.





Revision as of 18:54, 13 December 2016

Damaru

Damaru (Skt. ḍāmaru; Tib. ཌཱ་མ་རུ་, ང་ཆུང་, or, རྔེའུ་ཆུང་, Wyl. nga chung or rnge’u chung) — a small double-sided hand-drum sometimes made from the tops of two skulls and therefore translated as 'skull-drum'. The damaru is held in the right hand, and is frequently paired with the bell, held in the left hand.