GREAT SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA TIBETAN BUDDHIST THANGKA NEPAL

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T is neither a painting in the mind Nor a mind in the painting: And yet, w else can one find a painting Than in the mind? Avatamsaka Sutra PRICED $40 BELOW THE PREVIOUS SALE PRICE!!!!!! I am planning on spending 2 months in the Golok area of Amdo, Tibet this summer at my teacher, Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche's monastery t In order to do so, I need a lot more cash than I have right now, so I am going to put as many items as I can on sale for as low a price as I can - many below cost! I plan on helping him finish rebuilding the monastery and school and hope to start taking photographs for a prospective book on him and his monastery. Email me if you would like to help him directly and I will send you his web address which has ways to help. The pencil design drawing for this thangka was done by a 6th generation Tibetan thangka painter!! I am making little or nothing on this painting. It has gotten very hard for the few Tibetan traditional thangka painters left in Nepal to make a living and compete with the Newari and Tamang painters who are wonderful artists but often don't follow the traditional methods. This thangka is a little cheaper priced than others from this source because it was done entirely by students, after the proportions were drawn. The central figure is Shakyamuni Buddha, with Green Tara and a form of Manjusri below, and Amitabha with Chenrezig above. Measures about 17 inches by 24 inches without the borders. The last two photos show Po-po-la drawing the figures for another thangka. I had the privilege of living with a Tibetan family in Kathmandu for almost 3 months that contained a 6th generation and 7th generation thangka painter. This thangka was done by the top students in the thangka school run by them. Like every single other thangka done t, whether by students or by the masters - this one was begun by the man I called "Po-po-la" for 3 months, whose real Tibetan name is Thargyal. Before beginning any thangka, he reads the corresponding scriptures about the deities to be portrayed. Then he draws the figures in pencil according to strict geometic proportions written many hundreds of years ago. After that, the painting begins - with colors that have also been described for centuries. This particular thangka was painted entirely by the top students of the school. When I say student, I am talking about as much as 35 years - the length of time that the student who does most of the faces has been studying with Thargyal. Po-po-la is now 76 years old and escaped from Tibet in 1962, shortly after being released from 3 years imprisonment and torture by the Chinese. He escaped over the border to Nepal close to Mt. Everest and stayed in the Khumbu region for many years, painting for Rinpoches in the area. He went back to Tibet when conditions improved in 1980 and got one of his sons, Wangdi, out. He has painted thangkas for Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Sakya Trizin, and many others. Several noted Western thangka artists have also studied with him for long periods. This thangka is not mounted in brocade and unfortunately I cannot provide that service. Check out my other items ! Please take the time to look at the other items in my store: Please compare my detailed thangka photos to other thangkas available on eBay to determine the quality. Don't bother to compare them to the extremely low quality glut of fake "antique" or "old" "Tibetan" thangkas from China that have flooded the market in the last few years. T IS no comparison with these fakes that are as iconographically as incorrect as you can possibly find! I haven't seen a genuine antique Tibetan thangka on ebay in MANY years. Not only has China 's brutal regime been systematically eliminating Tibet 's culture and religion in Tibet , they are ruining the art of thangka painting w it is barely hanging on in exile in Nepal and India . I strive to provide the best quality thangkas for the price on eBay. They are all original paintings done... read more

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