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Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art. New York: Oxford University Press. McKay, Alex (2003). The History of Tibet. Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-1508-8. Rhie, Marylin; Thurman, Robert, eds. (1991). Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0810925265.
The tangka (Tibetan: Tam or dngul Tam = silver tangka) was a currency of Tibet until 1941. It was subdivided into 15 skar or 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 sho and, from 1909, it circulated alongside the srang , worth 10 sho.
The conservation and restoration of Tibetan thangkas is the physical preservation of the traditional religious Tibetan painting form known as a thangka (also spelled as "tangka" or "thanka"). When applied to thangkas of significant cultural heritage , this activity is generally undertaken by a conservator-restorer .
The giant thangka wall at Tashilhunpo monastery in Shigatse.It is about 32 metres high by 42 metres wide (at the base) and built in 1468. A thangka wall is, in Tibetan religious architecture, a stone-built structure used for hanging giant, or monumental, appliqued thangkas, or scrolls, in some of the major Buddhist monasteries of Tibet.
The Regong arts (or Rebgong arts) [1] are the popular arts on the subject of Tibetan Buddhism.They are painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture, and embroidery. [2] They are associated with communities in Tongren County and along the river Rongwo which crosses the current Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the province of Qinghai in China.
Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), reverse (from Tibetan tangka) Image 11 Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, reverse. Weight 5.57 g.
The Tibetan government began to mint the tangka in the 18th century. The first Tibetan tangka was minted in 1763/64. China's Qing dynasty, Tibet's suzerain, [citation needed] established mints in the region in 1792. [citation needed] The Sino-Tibetan tangka carried Chinese language inscriptions. [12] Banknotes were issued between 1912 and 1941 ...
Large shrine statue of Maitreya, Thiksey Monastery, Ladakh, 1970. The vast majority of surviving Tibetan art created before the mid-20th century is religious, with the main forms being thangka, paintings on cloth, mostly in a technique described as gouache or distemper, [1] Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings, and small statues in bronze, or large ones in clay, stucco or wood.