Conch Shell Trumpets: Dung dKar

Conch shells have been fun, as well as conch bombard trumpets have been fun to a turn of being required fun. We all know a conch bombard as one of a 8 portentous symbols, as well as we all know what it symbolizes. Some Tibetan prediction manuals allot a blowing of conch shells to correct or enhance certain matters, as well as a trumpets are, of course, an fundamental partial of most rituals as well as practices. Since everyone seems to be in a gratifying mood, as well as since great things have been happening hither as well as yon, because do not we have a quick visit to a universe of conch bombard trumpets?
From a Tibetan perspective, a most changed ones come from Namtso -- a highest saltwater lake upon a planet. There is a grand one, pronounced to belong to a naga king of Namtso, later presented to Yeshe Tsogyal, as well as recovered by Beru Khyentse Rinpoche after a Cultural Revolution. One also sees superb examples in a world's museums (the one during a British Museum is pictured above), as well as a innumerable of sucker-priced offerings in a tourist traps of a Tibetan Buddhist realms.
But, in a universe of conch bombard trumpets, Tibet actually came late to a game. These trumpets have been used in most other places around a universe -- inside as well as outward a Buddhist context -- for centuries as well as centuries.
One of a nicest conch trumpets comes from Japan -- a Horogai. Unlike those from India, Tibet, as well as elsewhere, a Horogai can actually produce more than one tone. Nowadays, they have been formidable to find, though there is a small market niche among a Japanese samurai reenactors (something similar to our own Civil War reenactors, though with much more superb uniforms, as well as rougher spor! ts). we did find one firm in Japan where we can get them during prices trimming from USD $198 to $420.
Much closer to home we find a pu, or island bombard marriage horns, customarily done from a queen conch, though which can also embody tritons much closer in coming to a Tibetan trumpets. Prices for new ones proceed during around USD $25 as well as go up from there.
Finally, if we have been a do-it-yourself type, we can have a conch bombard trumpet with a Dremel, or a couple of hand tools. Here is a good-natured, backyard how-to video, done by a little tall propagandize kids, that demonstrates a process:

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