We are offering wide variety of Thangka direct from the Artisan Gallery. All Painting are handrawn on primed cotton canvas using mineral and vegetal pigments along with 24 carat pure gold. The work duration ranges between one month to aone and half year per painting depending upon details. Full page detail explanation text is avaialable for each motif including certificate of origin and certificate issued by Archelogy Department of Nepal with stamp of authenticity on the back of each painting.

Every Paintings is nicely packed with hand made Lokta Paper and is put inside a strong unbendable PVC pipes for shipping.

Please buy this thangka with confidence.

Buying our Thangka gives support to our young students at the Lama Thangka Paiting school.

What are Thangkas?

In Nepal you will find the two kinds of Thangkas. Newari and Tibetan Thangaks. ar Newari Thangka Paintings are for both Hindu and Buddhist deities in different sizes and price range painted by the experienced artists of Newar community of Kathmandu valley, noted historically for their brilliant works of spiritual t and architecture, have been practicing Paubha Paintings from generations. The Newari Thangka Paintings also known as Paubha Paintings which is considered as an endangered art, similar to that of Tibetan Thangka Paintings. There are only a very small number Paubha painters left in Nepal today. We present the works of few highly respected Paubha artists

USE OF THANGKAS

There are various use of Thangka Paintings. Thangka or Thanka serve many purposed in Tibetan & Newari society

• * In a temple, thangka are uses for worship and meditation of a priest, and practice of specific Buddhism.
• * Thangka are intended to serve as a record of, and guide for contemplative experience. For example, you might be instructed by your teacher to imagine yourself as a specific figure in a specific setting. You could use a thangka as a reference for the details of posture, attitude, colour, clothing. etc., of a figure located in a field, or in a palace, possibly surrounded by many other figures of meditation teachers, your family, etc.. In this way, thangkas are intended to convey iconographic information in a pictorial manner. A text of the same meditation would supply similar details in written descriptive form.
• * In Tibetan culture Thangka is used for the time of the ceremony on the 49 the of the reparative who passed away. Moreover, it is used also in the case of the congratulation of a marriage ceremony or the New Year.
• * Thangka afford us important material for studying the religion, history, culture, painting, arts and crafts, and scientific achievements of Tibet .
• * Thangka is now a days used as a decorative objects.

FRAME YOUR THANGKAS

Thangkas are traditionally framed with brocade in Tibet and Nepal. In Europe and the United States it is hard to find the thangka painter to frame your Thangkas so Thangkas without a brocade require some kind of frames.

Some guidelines below from the Tibet Shop (Finland) .

CUSTOM FRAMING

Generally made of wood, often painted with gold, custom hard frames give the best protection for a thangka and are many times the only possibility with higher quality artworks. There are some important things that you don't necessarily get from an averge framing shop without asking: All cardboard should be acid-free. It would be better if the paints do not touch the glass. This can be done with a colored cardboard frame between the glass and the painting (the red inner frame in the photo). All the thangkas have a 1 inch border, usually red, which will be hidden behind the cardboard frame. Also it would be better if the framer didn't use glue to fix the painting.

GLASS

The thangkas can be framed with or without a glass. The drawback of using a glass is reflecting light, but it has many benefits. Cleaning, protecting, moving and preserving the thangka becomes easier. We, ourselves, use a glass with every framed thangka. For the people, who can afford the absolute best, there is special non-reflecting glass, which is even difficult to see. We sometimes tried matte glass to avoid reflecting light, but didn't like the result much. It is very important to protect the painting from direct sunlight. It may be possible to find special UV-glass to protects the paints from ultraviolet rays.

READY-MADE HARD FRAMES

Ready-made frames are an affordable way to quickly frame a thangka. If the size is good and the background carboard is of right color, they can look quite good. One problem is that the paint touches the glass and may stick after some years. Also, the edges of the canvas are not always cleanly cut. Both of these problems are solved, if you cut a colored cardboard frame, and place it between the the painting and the glass, as explained above with the custom frames.blessing

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