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First dissemination. Padmasambhāva; Śāntarakṣita; Kamalaśīla; Songtsen Gampo; Trisong Detsen; Ralpacan; Second dissemination. Atiśa; Talika; Abhayakirti; Niguma
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 Tibetan tangka was an official currency of Tibet for three centuries. It was introduced by Lhasa Newar merchants from Nepal in the 16th century. The merchants used Nepalese tanka on the Silk Road. The Tibetan government began to mint the tangka in the 18th century. The first Tibetan tangka was minted in 1763/64.
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.
A thangka of Palden Lhamo guardian deity of Tawang Monastery, Arunachal Pradesh, India Offerings to the Goddess Palden Lhamo, Tibet.Late 16th Century distemper on cloth, 67 x 44 1/8 in. Palden Lhamo is the principal protectress of Tibet and the only female of the Eight Guardians of the dharma.
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.
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.