Buddha Bamboo Wind Chime

A meditating Buddha, carved from wood in fine detail — robes folded, hands in dhyana mudra, expression entirely still — sits on a small round wooden platform above a cluster of bamboo tubes. Below the tubes, a single wooden piece hangs as the clapper. The whole thing is suspended from a single cord, the Buddha at the top looking outward through whatever window or doorway it inhabits.

The juxtaposition of the still figure and the moving chimes is not accidental. In Buddhist iconography, stillness is not absence of movement — it is the centre that holds while everything around it moves. The meditating Buddha does not move when wind passes through the bamboo tubes below it. The tubes swing and sound; the figure stays. That relationship, played out every time a breeze comes through an open window, is the entire teaching of the piece in three seconds.

Bamboo wind chimes in Buddhist practice are associated with the clearing of stagnant energy — the hollow bamboo channels the wind and the sound breaks whatever has settled and become still in the wrong way. Combined with a Buddha figure, the clearing function becomes intentional, directed. This is not incidental decor for a hallway. It is a meditation object that also happens to hang in a window.

Hand-carved, hand-hung, and photographed against mountain and forest views that the Buddha appears to contemplate. In Shaman's framework: Wood element (bamboo) + Air element (wind and sound) + Earth element (the grounded stability of the seated figure). Three elements in one piece.

Element: Wood · Air · Earth

Energy: Stillness · Clarity · Meditative Calm

Origin: Carved wood + bamboo — handcrafted, curated in Kathmandu

Care: For indoor or sheltered outdoor use. Keep away from direct rain — the carved wood figure can swell or crack with moisture. Dust with a soft dry cloth. The Buddha figure is delicate at the carving points — handle by the cord, not the figure, when repositioning.

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