A Hand Bell Hit After 500 Years

Eyang Suryo, chief of the Temple of Majapahit Kingdom in Trowulan, East Java wants to continue to maintain the temple and its artifact heritage. At a friendly interview recently with Bali Travel News he gave some information about the heirloom of the former greatest Hindu Kingdom Indonesia.

He enthusiastically told us of the existence of the only one unique genta (Buddhist hand bell) as the heritage of Majapahit. At this exhibition, he also noted a very special moment in relation to the hand bell. It is for the very first time during the last 500 hundred years after the fall of Majapahit that a holy priest named Ida Pedanda Bang Buruan Manuaba, used this hand bell exactly at 12.00 p.m. local time on the first day of the exhibition. The hit was followed by a perfect strain of mantras. He is a priest from the faculty of Shiva-Buddha.
The specialty of this hand bell is that a set of hand bells consisting of two parts, namely one-hand bell attributing to a two-sided crown. The bell on the right hand and its attribute on the left hand are hit at the same time. In addition, Eyang Suryo said the hand bell resembles that of the monk Tom Sam Chong in the popular TV series of Monkey King. The hand bell is now kept in a Buddhist Temple of Majapahit in Trowulan, East Java. (BTN/Punia)