A thangka is a
painting used in Buddhism showing the Buddha, Buddhist scenes, a deity, a
boddhisattva, or a mandala, or the wheel of life. As I already pointed out in
the blogpost on the big thangka at Sera monastery, there are quite a lot of
different spellings being used like: tangka, thanka, or tanka, but the best way
is to spell it thangka as the t is aspirated, but it’s a T and not a TH.
The thangka
has been used to teach or for devotional purposes, but today it might also serve
as a souvenir. As for souvenirs there are also printed thangka
In the
workshop I could see the paint being grounded und mixed with water to have a
certain texture. They paint on paper, but also on other material. The scenes,
the deities are drafted with pencil and then the picture is done in colors.
Later it is mounted as shown in the pictures.
Color pigments
Grinding and watering the colors
Colors used to paint thangkas
Outlining before coloring
Two thangkas, mounted
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