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A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be made by an internal "clapper" or "uvula", an external hammer, or—in small bells—by a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell (jingle bell).

Bells are usually cast from bell metal (a type of bronze) for its resonant properties, but can also be made from other hard materials. This depends on the function. Some small bells such as ornamental bells or cowbells can be made from cast or pressed metal, glass or ceramic, but large bells such as a church, clock and tower bells are normally cast from bell metal.

Bells intended to be heard over a wide area can range from a single bell hung in a turret or bell-gable, to a musical ensemble such as an English ring of bells, a carillon or a Russian zvon which are tuned to a common scale and installed in a bell tower. Many public or institutional buildings house bells, most commonly as clock bells to sound the hours and quarters.

Historically, bells have been associated with religious rites, and are still used to call communities together for religious services. Later, bells were made to commemorate important events or people and have been associated with the concepts of peace and freedom. The study of bells is called campanology.

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The Great Matter

Serial: SF-00085

How awareness of death, and our own mortality, spurs us to greater effort in practice.

Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Gratitude, Heart Sutra, Ceremony,...
Mar 11 2006
City Center

Practice Period

Serial: SF-00034

Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems.

Practice Period, Buddha Ancestors, Zazen, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, resistance,...
Feb 19 2006

Alive or Dead?

Serial: SF-01147

Sunday Lecture: Koan: "Alive or Dead" (Daowu's condolence call); mind fleas; confession; too busy; leap or die when at an impasse; story of Buddha and king - what else can I do...

Teacher-and-Student, Anger, Don't Know Mind, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period,...
Jan 29 2006
Green Gulch

Zendo Lecture

Monastic Practice, Practice Period, Global Warming, Buddha Ancestors, Mahayana,...
Oct 02 2005
Tassajara

Dining Room Lecture

Posture, Zendo, Mindfulness, training, Big Mind, Bell, Bowing, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen,...
Aug 31 2005
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03554

Dining Room Class 3

Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Nirvana, Bell, Renunciation, Samsara, Balance,...
Oct 20 2004
Tassajara

Sitting Under The Rose-Apple Tree

Serial: SF-01016

Sunday Lecture

Balance, Darkness and Light, Bell, Commitment, Letting Go, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,...
Oct 03 2004
Green Gulch

Dining Room Lecture

Equanimity, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Suzuki Roshi, Diversity, Nirvana, Enemies,...
Aug 18 2004
Tassajara

The Power of Ten

Serial: SF-00985

The silence of 'don't know'; outer space Vimalakirti Sutra; radiant vision of alternate universes. Motivation for literary inventiveness - world is not only what we think;...

Vimalakirti, Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Mill Valley, Bell, Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra...
Dec 14 2003
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Vow, causation, Faith, Six Realms, Passions, Bell, New Year, confusion, Birth-and-...
Dec 06 2003
Green Gulch

Transforming Hate Into Global Compassion

Serial: SF-00051

Sunday talk.

Hate, Current Events, Mill Valley, Peace, Bell, Interdependence, Sanctuary, Chanting...
Sep 16 2001

Sunday Lecture

Hate, Current Events, Mill Valley, Peace, Bell, Interdependence, Sanctuary,...
Sep 16 2001
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Freedom, training, Bell, Beginners, Discrimination, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, confusion...
Mar 04 2001
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Practice Period, Instruction, Suzuki Roshi, realization, Buddha Ancestors, Delusion,...
Feb 28 2001
Green Gulch

Surangama Sutra Class

Birth-and-Death, Bell, Light-and-Darkness, Nirvana, Ego, Skandas, confusion, Letting...
Sep 25 2000
Unknown

Sunday Lecture

Interview, Mill Valley, Birth-and-Death, Koan, Bell, Vow, Faith, Liberation, Delusion...
May 21 2000
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Perfect Wisdom, Practice Period, training, Bell, Intimacy, Emptiness, Birth-and-Death...
Apr 12 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Buddha Ancestors, Death-and-Dying, Silence, New Year, Priest, Suzuki Roshi,...
Apr 05 2000
Green Gulch

Fukanzazengi Class

Serial: SF-03654

Monday Class

Zazen, Instruction, Soto Zen, Posture, realization, Dragons, Lineage, Suzuki Roshi,...
Mar 27 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Anger, Impermanence, Zendo, Demons, Right Speech, Monastic Practice, Bodhisattva Vow...
Mar 01 2000
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

realization, Buddha Ancestors, Demons, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Bell, Suzuki...
Feb 26 2000
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Greed, Offering, Lotus Sutra, Bodhidharma, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Sep 18 1999
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, training, Letting Go, Nirvana Sutra, Vow, Ceremony, Monastic Practice,...
Feb 27 1999
Green Gulch

Rohatsu

Teacher-and-Student, Rumi, Bell, Intimacy, Gratitude, Instruction, Zendo, Emotions,...
Dec 01 1998
City Center

25 Years of Green Gulch

Serial: SF-03245

Sunday Lecture

Gratitude, Bell, Commitment, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Ceremony, Teacher-and-Student...
Sep 20 1998
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Posture, Mindfulness, Emotions, Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, Bell, Instruction,...
Aug 18 1998
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Letting Go, Monastic Practice, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Karma, Practice Period...
Feb 01 1998
Green Gulch

The Jewel Called The Sangha

Serial: SF-00063

Sunday talk Jan PP; you are blessed by the people who want to practice with you who are not necessarily the people you would choose to practice with.

Interdependence, Lotus Sutra, Separation, causation, Instruction, Intimacy, training...
Jan 11 1998
Green Gulch Farm

Buddhism At Millennium's Edge

Serial: SF-00030

Seminar 1

Dragons, Evil, Rinzai, Ego, Bell, Discrimination, Greed, Silence, Balance,...
1998

Questions and Answers

Serial: SF-04820

Commercially Produced cassette: Sounds True - - Pain, Love and Happiness with Thich Nhat Hanh - September 1-6 1997 Sponsored by the Community of Mindful Living

Happiness, Bell, Freedom, Peace, Daily Life, Birth-and-Death, Mindfulness, Offering,...
Sep 01 1997
Unknown

Zazen

confusion, Enemies, Balance, Bell, Attachment, Delusion
Aug 20 1997

Sesshin Lecture

Harmonizing, Obstacles, Zazen, Bodhidharma, Ego, Posture, Bell, Zendo, realization...
Aug 11 1997
Green Gulch

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: SF-03098

Sunday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Humility, Chanting, Renewal,...
Apr 06 1997
Green Gulch

No Species Is Only Itself

Serial: SF-03103

Sunday Lecture: Tigers are awesome, unchained wildness; species are disappearing; every species exists as an important factor in the world of many other species; for humans,...

Forgiveness, Dream World, Mindfulness, Ego, Four Foundations, Commitment, Beginners,...
Mar 02 1997
Green Gulch

Poetry of Enlightenment

Serial: SF-00071

Class

realization, Emptiness, Dragons, Balance, Bell, Priest, Emotions, Freedom, Doubt...
Feb 04 1997
1

Practice of Zazen

Serial: SF-03138

Sunday Lecture

Zazen, zen meditation, Ceremony, Bell, Interview, Greed, Letting Go, Posture,...
May 26 1996
Green Gulch

A Sense of Vision Giving a Sense of Purpose in Life

Serial: SF-03228

Sunday lecture

Interdependence, Lotus Sutra, Happiness, Nirvana, Silence, Peace, true dharma,...
May 05 1996
Green Gulch

Buddha's Birthday

Buddha's Birthday, Renewal, Offering, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Nirvana,...
Apr 07 1996
Green Gulch

The Angulimala Story

Serial: SF-03226

Sunday Lecture - Children's talk

true dharma, Enemies, Karma, Letting Go, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Anger, Daily...
Mar 03 1996
Green Gulch

Interview

Suzuki Roshi, Peace, Practice Period, Intuition, Instruction, Emotions, Gratitude,...
Jan 21 1996
Unknown

The Greater Discourse and the Destruction of Craving

Serial: SF-03231

Sunday Lecture

Anger, Silence, Letting Go, Bell, Happiness, confusion, Suzuki Roshi, Bodhisattva...
Nov 19 1995
Green Gulch

Studying Yourself through Zazen and Oryoki

Serial: SF-03672

One-day sitting

Posture, Forgiveness, Zazen, Bell, Letting Go, Zendo, Emotions, Rinzai, Offering,...
Jun 17 1995
Green Gulch

Shantideva Class

Serial: SF-03200

Practice of Morality/Ethics

Mindfulness, Doubt, Enemies, Emotions, Discrimination, Anger, Don't Know Mind,...
Apr 25 1995
Unknown

Practicing With The Precepts

Serial: SF-00143

Tokubetsu Sesshin

 

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, true dharma, Three Treasures, Transmission, Vow,...
Mar 28 1995

Importance of Shikantaza

Serial: SF-03104

Description of Tokubetsu Sesshin

Ceremony, Lotus Sutra, Priest, Letting Go, Buddha's Birthday, realization, Soto...
Mar 19 1995
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Ceremony, Practice Period, Four Noble Truths, Funeral, Fox, Bell, Six Realms, Demons...
Oct 30 1994
Green Gulch

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: SF-03249

Sunday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Renewal, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Offering,...
Apr 10 1994
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-03675

Includes Q&A and discussion

Big Mind, Emptiness, Bell, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Instruction, Zazen,...
Mar 13 1994
Green Gulch

Tara Rinpoche's Memorial

Heart Sutra, Bell, Lineage, Bodhisattva Vow, Vow, Happiness, training, Impermanence,...
Jun 30 1991
Green Gulch Farm

Shuso Way-Seeking Mind Talk

Serial: SF-01077

#shuso-talk

Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, zen meditation, Zazen,...
Feb 20 1991
Unknown

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