thangkas

Penpa says many people think of Tibet as a backward place, with an art scene dominated by religious paintings known as thangkas.

Contemporary Tibetan Art on Display in Beijing 2010

I folded my legs onto a cushion, looking around at the candles burning in dishes of yak butter, painted thangkas hanging on the walls, piles of Buddhist scripture tied in neat stacks on a table.

On the Road, 2010

The interdisciplinary nature of the exhibit was amplified when the monks decided that the panels should be painted like thangkas.

Seeing science through a spiritual lens, with the Smithsonian's help Amy Yee 2010

Penpa says many people think of Tibet as a backward place, with an art scene dominated by religious paintings known as thangkas.

Contemporary Tibetan Art on Display in Beijing 2010

Choedak, 36, has been painting thangkas for 23 years, and had never studied science.

Seeing science through a spiritual lens, with the Smithsonian's help Amy Yee 2010

This film explores her discovery of fabric thangka, her apprenticeship in Dharmasala, India, the step-by-step by process of producing a fabric thangka, and the history and spiritual importance of the thangkas in Tibetan Buddhism.

Shambhala SunSpace » 2008 » September 2008

Huge blue and red and green rupas (statues with multiple arms, heads, ornaments), thangkas (paintings) and mandalas (symbolic representations of different Buddha fields) seemed to invite the viewer to step through a portal in his/her own mind into a sensuous, vivid and somewhat other-worldly realm in which enlightened beings with their full manifestation and retinues are completely present and manifest.

David Nichtern: Virtual Reality, The Singularity And Tibetan Buddhism David Nichtern 2010

Huge blue and red and green rupas (statues with multiple arms, heads, ornaments), thangkas (paintings) and mandalas (symbolic representations of different Buddha fields) seemed to invite the viewer to step through a portal in his/her own mind into a sensuous, vivid and somewhat other-worldly realm in which enlightened beings with their full manifestation and retinues are completely present and manifest.

David Nichtern: Virtual Reality, The Singularity And Tibetan Buddhism David Nichtern 2010

The painted and textile thangkas with their bright colors and complex imagery are particularly mind-blowing.

The Dragon's Gift kateelliott 2008

The Smithsonian team researched thangkas and visited Buddhist art collections at the Sackler Gallery and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York.

Seeing science through a spiritual lens, with the Smithsonian's help Amy Yee 2010