Mount a piece of white cloth on a frame and then apply water-based colloid chalk to the surface. When it's dried, polish with talc and the canvas is ready for painting. A thangka master is drawing ...

Thangka simply means “Tibetan hanging scroll.” ... His faceless monks within the frame invite the viewer to identify one’s own capacity for compassion and detachment from want.

An interview with thangka master painter and teacher, Ambar Lama, on the state of this iconic Tibet-an art. Thangka: Painting the Roadmap to Enlightenment – The Diplomat All Sections Search ...

View A Tibetan thangka of Vairocana with silk mounts 19th century with 17th century silk mount Painted in polychrome on canvas with a four-armed Vairocana seated on a tall throne with red mandorla ...

In Sherpa’s art, Tibet and California, thangka and pop art, Buddha and Mickey Mouse mingle and morph to create a new visual language. Tsherin Sherpa, "Fly High" (2019), metal leaf, acrylic, and ...

An artist works on a thangka painting. Photo: Courtesy of Tashi Choedak . A thangka painting of a giant Buddha on display during the Shoton Festival in Lhasa Photo: VCG ...

NEW YORK, April 17, 2017 — Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on ...