Rolmo, the Glossary
The rolmo is a horizontal ritual cymbal used by Tibetan monks in Buddhist rites.[1]
Table of Contents
5 relations: Buddhist music, Cymbal, Music of Tibet, Silnyen, Tibet.
- Cymbals
- Tibetan musical instruments
Buddhist music
Tibetan illustration of Saraswati holding a veena, the main deity of music and musicians in Mahayana Buddhism Buddhist music is music (Sanskrit: vàdita, saṅgīta) created for or inspired by Buddhism and includes numerous ritual and non-ritual musical forms.
Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Rolmo and cymbal are cymbals.
See Rolmo and Cymbal
Music of Tibet
The music of Tibet reflects the cultural heritage of the trans-Himalayan region centered in Tibet, but also known wherever ethnic Tibetan groups are found in Nepal, Bhutan, India and further abroad.
Silnyen
The silnyen is a Tibetan percussion instrument in the form of a cymbal with a small or no central boss. Rolmo and silnyen are cymbals, Idiophone instrument stubs and Tibetan musical instruments.
Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
See Rolmo and Tibet
See also
Cymbals
- Bell cymbal
- Bo (instrument)
- China cymbal
- Ching (instrument)
- Clash cymbals
- Crash cymbal
- Crash/ride cymbal
- Crotales
- Cymbal
- Cymbal alloys
- Cymbal choke
- Cymbal making
- Cymbal pack
- Cymbal stand
- Cymbal-banging monkey toy
- Drum kit
- Effects cymbal
- Flat ride cymbal
- Hi-hat
- Jhyali
- Kecer
- Ride cymbal
- Rolmo
- Silnyen
- Sizzle cymbal
- Splash cymbal
- Suspended cymbal
- Swish cymbal
- Taal (instrument)
- Taper (cymbal)
- Tingsha
- Zang (bell)
- Zill
Tibetan musical instruments
- Damaru
- Dramyin
- Gong
- Gyaling
- Kangling
- Lag-na
- Rolmo
- Shang (bell)
- Silnyen
- Standing bell
- Tibetan horn
- Tingsha