Tibetan painting has a long history , beautiful screen , colorful , varied , and it is in full bloom in this Thangka Art in a wonderful garden . It embodies the Tibetan people ‘s faith and wisdom, records the history and development of Tibetan civilization , these exquisite works of art is the Tibetan civilization epic , called Tibetan encyclopedia.
Thangka is a Tibetan transliteration, “Don ” is to show you , “card” is to show this place , Thangka refers Caiduan rear suspension mounting religious worship scroll painting . Thangka is a Tibetan religious life indispensable , it is inspired by the Tibetan rock paintings and murals , Tibetan rock art has been for thousands of years of history , murals have a very long history , vast territory over Tibetan areas , traffic inconvenience, but it has a strong Tibetan monk mobility, they flow , we need to worship the Buddha statues and later they will draw on the canvas shows in , this is the Thangka . No later than the seventh century it had already appeared before the early because after Langdama the suppression of Buddhism Thangka , with no trace to be found , in addition to a small number of existing Thangka Song and Yuan Dynasties works, mostly V达赖罗桑嘉measures the collective work , before this, Thangka folk artist dedicated to the temple are scattered works , the equivalent of the Fifth Dalai academy has been established institutions , Tibetan Thangka creation into the specialized creative period , after VII Dalai Lama Kelsang Gyatso , has set up a pull at Baiji agency, greatly promoted the development of Thangka art .
Thangka types
Thangka Tibetan culture as a kind of unique painting art form whose contents to show the religious culture -based, pure religious content Thangka Thangka accounted for about 80 percent of the total number , in addition, it related to the history of Tibetan folk tales , culture, arts and science and technology and many other areas , the content and subject matter has a strong religious overtones .
Tibetan Thangka Tibetan handicrafts – Doncaster
Thangka art performance under different content can be divided into such categories :
One to Buddha or to religious themes dominated , called co- Don or Jietang , because in the past to implement the theocratic regime Tibetan society , universal religion , and thus religious themes become the mainstream of Thangka art .
Second, the performance of Tibetan medicine , called Man Tang , it is the human anatomy , human anatomy , with the formation of the fetus manifested Thangka art , the famous Tibetan scholar Sanjay Gyatso , the Qing dynasty to draw on human anatomy, the formation of the fetus Thangka , than the West as early as one of the human anatomy , two hundred years.
Third, because generations of Tibetan people living in the world’s highest plateau, here has a special climatic conditions, and therefore they have to belong to their own ethnic Tibetan , Tibetan Thangka art with performance, such as climate change, and changes in sun and moon , Tibet language called Zitang .
Fourth, there is something called Chung Tang , specifically embodied such Gesar Thangka story .
So Thangka is a Tibetan Buddhist religious , scientific, practical and multifaceted folk unity .
According to the materials used in production of Thangka , Thangka and can be divided into two categories , one is made with silk States Tang ; Another is painted with paint for Don , is thangka painting thangka the most widely spread , the most widely used one.
