See a related thangka of Avalokiteshvara with eleven faces and eight hands, Tibet, 19th century, on Himalayan Art Resources (no.90131).

"This thangka art form has over 2,000 years of history in Tibetan and Buddhist-related culture. It is a heritage. … Thangka ...

While there, he heard about a Tibetan Buddhist organization looking for a Thangka artist. They hired him to teach, and he ...

Inheritance and Beyond is on display at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve art gallery, where the thangka master brought 16 ...

Gifts of Tibetan art donated by Bruce Walker ’53 complement the Asian collection and include an impressive number of 18th-20th century thangka paintings, 20th century drawings, and religious and ...

To celebrate the spirit and resilience of its culture, a Tibetan art exhibition, titled “Unsettled”, is being organised in ...

patrons of religious art would generally budget for gold separately from the rest of the painting. Much of the gold was obtained, as it continues to be today, from Newar merchants in Lhasa, Tibet ...

Dharamshala, cradled in the lap of the Himalayas, is famous for its breath-taking natural charm, spiritual richness, and ...

Project Himalayan Art, a resource designed to support the inclusion of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Inner Asian art and cultures into undergraduate teaching on Asia. The McMullen Museum is the first New ...

Founded in 1945, the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is dedicated to promoting Tibetan art and culture.

This monastery is also the site of one of Tibet's biggest cultural celebrations, the Buddha Unfolding Festival. The festival centers around the debut of a giant, new thangka (Buddhist painting ...