Life Of Buddha Tibetan Thangka Painting 39"W x 54"H Hand Paint Nepal

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Life Of Buddha Tibetan Thangka Painting 39"W x 54"H Hand Paint Nepal
Thangka is a Buddhist paintings on cotton, silk, canvas, usually despiciting Buddhist deities, scene, or mandala. Thangkas are traditionally kept unframed and rolled up when not display, mounted on a textile backing somewhat in the style of Chinese scroll paintings. Images of deities can be used as teaching tools when depicting the life of the Buddha, describing historical events concerning important Lamas, or retelling myths associated with other deities. Overall, and perhaps most importantly, religious art is used as a meditation tool to help bring one further down the path to enlightenment.
Tibetan thangkas are religious paintings on scroll. They serve as meditation aid or as a tool to teach aspects of Buddhism to a wide audience. Thangkas follow certain basic image patterns. One of these iconographic patterns is the story of the life of the historic Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama who lived circa 563 BC to 483 BC. This thangka has many events of Buddhas life from his birth to his death. The events where Gautam Buddha took visit to the outer world except his house and the knowledge from where he knew about the life and death and many more things. These things are expressed in this thangka.
Life Of Buddha thangka paintings are not just a mere illustration of the main episodes of the historical Siddhartha and his progress towards the achievement of spiritual enlightenment. The twelve topic events of the life of Shakyamuni Buddha that can be divided in three distinct phases:
- His descent on earth, the birth and the young years as a prince.
- The realization of human suffering and his quest for a solution to overcome his sufferings.
- The fulfillment of his search and his commitment to spend his rest of life teaching others how to achieve enlightenment for themselves.