Thangka

Lately, they've turned to detailed Tibetan paintings, called thangka, from the 10th to the 14th centuries. ❋ Kelly Crow (2011)

A painting on fabric, known as a thangka , depicts delicately rendered Naxi gods: Dongba Shila, the religion's founder; the four-headed Kozhe, who shoots down the demons of suicide; sly-eyed Natosa, god of wealth; the great god Soyiwade on his lotus throne, surrounded by rainbows and mystic jewels. ❋ Lawrence Osborne (2011)

Items on exhibit include ­centuries-old Buddhist sculptures, traditional Tibetan silk paintings known as thangka and other religious items. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The word 'thangka' means 'rolled art' and so these paintings of Buddhist deities and other images are rolled and unrolled for hundreds of years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I take them into a room filled with ritual objects and thangka paintings, painted scrolls traditionally used for meditation and healing. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

In 1974, His Holiness requested Venerable Sangye Yeshe, a monk trained in the Menris tradition of thangka, to begin teaching this traditional art to a new generation in exile. ❋ Heidiminx (2011)

Hughes Dubois Photographie/Collection of Tom Pritzker Tom Pritzker, chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corp., and his wife Margot have built one of the world's best private collections of ancient art from Tibet, including this 13th century Tibetan "thangka" painting of Marpa, an 11th century teacher credited with spreading Buddhism from India to Tibet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

ME: And traditionally speaking, what would be involved in becoming a thangka painter? ❋ Max Eternity (2010)

In doing so I focused on artists who primarily have very strong thangka painting skills. ❋ Max Eternity (2010)

The missing woman is standing in front of a thangka of Green Tara, one of the divine bodhisattvas, a female Buddha in the making. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

As I was coming back to my office at the end of the talk, I saw that about ten pictures of Gonpo Shelshi (all of them photographs of a thangka), something I have neither seen before nor since, had been brought for consecration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When it came to important decisions, he was told to direct all of his questions to Palden Lhamo by performing divinations before the thangka in question. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both the thangka and the gun just seemed to keep on getting heavier and heavier as we went along (laughter). ❋ Unknown (2010)