Tingshas (tingshaw, dingsha) are a meditation bell in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Tingsha can be rung anytime one wants to achieve a calm and meditative state of mind. They can be rung to fix a moment or place in one's memory. Tingsha can be part of a home altar or shrine, or easily transported to use in a garden, yoga center, or other setting. Bells have been used for centuries in many different cultures as a call to awareness. In traditional Buddhist ceremony, one use of the tingsha is to call the 'hungry ghosts'. By calling them and making an offering of food, incense or prayer, their suffering is diminished. In the Boddhisattva tradition, only when all suffering is eliminated can Enlightenment be achieved.

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