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The metal thangka, whose durability and foldable concept was to serve travelling needs. The Papier-mâché thangka which is unique for the three-dimensional appearance of the central picture. The tshen drub ma, embroidered thangka which is typically executed in the far eastern part of Tibet and China for trade export. The woven thangka.
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.
The word "thangka" means "thing that one unrolls" in Classical Tibetan. [4] Thangka are very rarely signed, but some artists are known, more because they were important monastic leaders than famous as artists. Painting was a valued accomplishment in a monk. [5]
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.
Tibetan thangka of Vajradhara. The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, literally "Three bodies or personalities"; 三身 Chinese: Sānshēn, Japanese: sanjin) is an important Buddhist teaching both on the nature of reality, and what a Buddha is. By the 4th century CE, the Trikaya Doctrine had assumed the form that we now know.
Bodhi Tree at the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya. The structures of the compositions symbolize the interconnectedness of the various figures and groupings. The figures of "Refuge" are depicted within the form of a tree diagram usually supported by three main structures: the branches of a stylised tree, a palace, or lotus flower and lion throne.
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The China Folk House Retreat is a Chinese folk house outside Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States. Erected in 1989 in China's Yunnan province, the house was dismantled in 2017, shipped to the United States, and reassembled in West Virginia in 2019.