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A bell /ˈbɛl/ () 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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Case #7 - Wash Your Bowl

Serial: BZ-02027

Saturday Lecture

BCR-7, Family Practice, Transmission, Bell, Daily Life, Building, Emotions,...
May 02 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva Vows

Vow, Liberation, Evil, Precepts, Passions, Buddha Nature, Samsara, Oneness, Bell,...
Mar 14 2009

Zen Mind: From Entity to Activity

Serial: RB-01671B

Seminar_Zen_Mind

Bell, Culture, Practice
Feb 2009
Johanneshof

About the Lotus Sutra 

Lotus Sutra, Bell, Dogen
Apr 19 2008
No Abode Hermitage

Embodying the Lotus Sutra 

Intimacy, Bell, Separation, Desire, Emptiness
Apr 10 2008
The Yoga Room

April 10th, 2008, Serial No. 03561

Intimacy, Bell, Separation
Apr 10 2008

Embodying the Lotus Sutra 

Lotus Sutra, Bell, Discrimination, Observe, Evil
Apr 03 2008
The Yoga Room

April 3rd, 2008, Serial No. 03560

Lotus Sutra, Bell, Discrimination
Apr 03 2008

Aging

Serial: BZ-01119

Saturday Lecture

Impermanence, Book of Serenity, Culture, Conversation, Gratitude, Lineage, confusion...
Mar 08 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Listening to A Story, Quiet Enought to Hear Own Thoughts (Kid Zendo)

Serial: BZ-01109B

Saturday lecture

Bell, Daily Life, Hate, Culture, Emotions, Ego, Impermanence, Liberation, Silence,...
Jan 19 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

December 10th, 2007, Serial No. 03509

Ceremony, Book of Serenity, Bell
Dec 10 2007

Can I Trust This Practice? What Else is There?

Serial: BZ-01104B

Rohatsu Day 6

Renunciation, Monastic Practice, Book of Serenity, Peace, Bell, War, Ego, Greed,...
Dec 07 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

True Humility and Buddha's Practice

Serial: BZ-01101

Bare Attention and Not Anticipating, Rohatsu Day 3

Practice, Shikantaza, Humility, Buddha Mind, Hindrances, Don't Know Mind, Anger...
Dec 04 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

BCR: Case #75: "Ukyû's Unfair Blows"

Serial: BZ-00990

Kid Zendo, Saturday Lecture

Ukyu, BCR-75, Giving-and-Taking, Teacher-and-Student, Absolute-and-Relative, Bell,...
Aug 18 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Meditation as Bodhisattva Vow

During this course, we will study the bodhisattva vow, to see how the compassionate intentions of enlightening beings generate, work, and play with the mind of enlightenment to promote peace and...

Nirvana, Harmonizing, Lotus Sutra, Bell, Letting Go, Bodhisattva Way, Desire...
Jul 17 2007
The Yoga Room

Responding Authentically: Zen in Action

Serial: RB-01657F

Seminar_Dogen_Statements_with Norman Fisher

Bell, Work, Practice
Jul 2007
Johanneshof

With No Path, Go Dark

Serial: BZ-01442

Sesshin Day 3

Doubt, Evil, Practice Period, Gaining Mind, Bowing, Heart Sutra, Bell, Lay, Humility...
Jun 22 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Minds: Navigating Consciousness and Suffering

Serial: RB-01656E

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Consciousness, Bell, Practice
Jun 2007
Rastenberg

Sandokai, Branching Streams Flow in the Dark: Dark and Light, The Function of Dark is Light

Serial: BZ-01434

Saturday Lecture

Branching Streams, Light-and-Darkness, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Oneness, Duality, Priest...
May 05 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Openness

Serial: NC-00769

Retreat Conference

OSB Cam, Openness, Enemies, Pain, Sanctuary, Bell, Concentration
May 2007
Part 3 (of 5)
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Sojun Gives Chanting Instruction

Serial: BZ-01051

Class

Chanting, Bell, Hate
Mar 03 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Zendo Forms

Serial: BZ-01407

Serving, Mokugyo, Chanting, Rohatsu Day 7

Meal Serving, Chanting, Mokugyo, Instruction, Doanryo, New Year, Bowing, Chanting,...
Dec 03 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Commentary on "Find Out For Yourself"

Serial: BZ-01406

Suzuki-rôshi's lecture in "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 6

Buddha, Suzuki Roshi, Intuition, Daily Life, Instruction, Bell, Don't Know Mind...
Dec 02 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-01404

Rohatsu Day 4

Buddha Nature, Composure, Daily Life, Dependent Origination, Nirvana, Concentration,...
Nov 30 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Aspects of Practice: Precepts of Sexuality and Intoxication

Serial: BZ-01049A

Class 3 of 3

Precepts, Chanting, Branching Streams, Vow, Observe, Bell, Monastic Practice, Karma,...
Nov 09 2006
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Sojun Gives Doan and Kokyo Training: Chanting and Bells

Serial: BZ-01046

Class

Bell, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Harmonizing, Don't Know Mind, Sangha, Bowing,...
Oct 28 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Intention Unveiled: The Heart of Zen

Bell, Lovingkindness, Dogen
Oct 08 2006

Shining Practice: Growing up in a Zendo (Kid Zendo)

Serial: BZ-01386

Saturday Lecture

Bell, Family Practice, Transmission, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission...
Sep 16 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Stopping and Listening

Serial: SF-00945

Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: Baby beluga; why are you here?; Dogen's Three Minds: joyful mind, kind mind, big mind; mother's love as essence of spirituality (...

Tenzo Kyokun, Big Mind, Birth-and-Death, Bell, Silence, Gratitude, Hate, Suzuki Roshi...
Sep 03 2006
Green Gulch Farm

Teachers and Students

Hakuin, Suzuki Roshi, Cooking, Bell, Way-Seeking Mind, Silence, Demons
Aug 27 2006

Loving Everyone — The Metta Sutra; Kid Zendo and Also Reflecting on the Death of John King

Serial: BZ-01179

Saturday Lecture

Death-and-Dying, Bell, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Vow, Addiction, Gratitude, Duality,...
Aug 19 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Parenting as Shikantaza

Serial: BZ-01169B

Sesshin Day 4

Four Noble Truths, Passions, Bell, Lay, Attachment, Interdependence, Enemies, Culture...
Jun 17 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Engaging Life's Details Mindfully

Serial: RB-03108

Seminar_Heartfelt_Desire

Time, Bell, Practice
Jun 2006
Rastenberg

Mindful Teaching: Embracing Inner Calm

Bell, Thich Nhat Hanh, Yaoshan, Emptiness, Silence
Apr 24 2006

Bodhidharma as Mother: What do You Love More than Your Own Ease

Serial: BZ-01313D

Saturday Lecture

Bodhidharma, Practice Position, Silent Illumination, Lineage, Bell, American...
Mar 12 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

The Great Matter

Serial: SF-00085

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

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

The Water of Life

Kids' Talk, Rumi, Personality Types, Enemies, Dragons, Silence, Bell
Mar 05 2006

Practice Period

Serial: SF-00034

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

Practice Period, Dongshan, Dogen, Rumi, Buddha Ancestors, Zazen, Tassajara Zen...
Feb 19 2006
Green Gulch Farm

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...

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

When Things Go Wrong

Serial: BZ-01212

Saturday Lecture

Light-and-Darkness, Right Speech, Five Ranks, Non-duality, Samadhi, Continuous...
Jan 28 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Bells

Serial: BZ-01211

Saturday Lecture

Bell, Bell, Chanting, Subject-and-Object, Separation, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva...
Jan 21 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Crisis: A Spiritual Turning Point

Spiritual life exists in crisis, which can be used as a turning point. To the extent that we recognize that where we sit right now is a turning point, we are able to understand the possibility of...

Transmission, Intuition, Emotions, Bell, Continuous Practice
Jan 08 2006
Part 2
Green Gulch Farm

Resuming Big Mind

Serial: BZ-01202

Sesshin Practice, Rohatsu Day 2

Sesshin, Big Mind, Monkey Mind, Pure Existence, Posture, Buddha Mind, Mindfulness,...
Nov 29 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

“Calmness of Mind” from Not Always So

Serial: BZ-01039A

Class 4 of 4

Anger, Attachment, American, Ego, Interview, Chanting, Concentration, Bell, Offering...
Nov 17 2005
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Settling Into Monastic Practice Together

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

Book of Serenity Case #7: On Thinking “Inside the Box”

Serial: BZ-01187

Saturday Lecture

Bowing, Blue Cliff Record, Daily Life, Fox, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Sep 10 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Unveiling Zen: Beyond Dualistic Thought

Serial: RB-01645G

Seminar_Living_Original_Mind

Bell, Silence, Buddhism
Sep 2005
Oldenburg

Floating through Perception's Lens

Serial: RB-01646F

Seminar_Somatic_Space

Bell, Breath, Consciousness
Sep 2005
Johanneshof

Trip to Japan: Jizos for Peace

Serial: BZ-01343

Saturday Lecture

Peace, War, Vow, Six Realms, Avalokiteshvara, Bell, Soto Zen, Chanting, Conversation...
Aug 27 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #9: Wash Your Bowls—ZBA Zen Business Associates

Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Instruction, Humility, Intimacy, Greed, Culture...
Aug 06 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

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