Two bells, ganthâ-dril-bu, copper alloy, Tibet, 19th centuryCopper alloy and brass alloy. Height : 20,5 and 28 cm ; weight : 351 g and 1095 gThe ganthâ symbolizes the feminine principle and embodies knowledge and emptiness . The association of the vajra and the ganthâ symbolizes on several levels the complementarity of the masculine and the feminine, of the goal and the means to reach it, of the temporal and the spiritual.