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Work in progress

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July 11, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha💚

#dailyvisions #dailyart #drawing #draw #pencil #pencildrawing #goddess #divinefeminine #divine #embodiment #greentara #buddhism #buddhist #tibetanart #study
May 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The Buddhist Deities Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi
Mineral pigments and traces of gold on cotton cloth
circa 15th century CE
Tibet

#buddhism #buddhistart #handmade #antique #tibet #tibetanart #chakrasamvara #vajravarahi #painting #cloth #circa15thcentury #commonera #tibetanart #tibetanbuddhism
The central blue figure of Chakrasamvara (The Union of the Wheel of the Elements) symbolizing the blissful state of perfect wisdom) stands in passionate embrace with his red-bodied consort Vajravarahi (The Diamond Sow). They are surrounded by a fiery red aureole, with numerous cremation grounds and the deities who preside over them depicted in the background. Vajrayana (adamantine or diamond) Buddhism differs from the two earlier forms of Buddhism, Theravada (The Doctrine of the Elders) and Mahayana (The Great Vehicle), through its use of incantation and ritual as the primary tools to achieve enlightenment. In addition, through their use, the practitioner can gain power over beings in other spheres of existence, either by dominating them, so that they will do ones will, or by identifying oneself with them, so that one may enjoy their higher states of existence. Tantric or esoteric Buddhist art is symbolic, with each symbol taking on new meaning when it is interpreted to the practitioner. On a conceptual level this dramatic image of Chakrasamvara and his spouse, Vajravarahi symbolizes the union of Wisdom and Means. The four faces of Chakrasamvara and their four colors symbolize the four elements (earth, water, fire and air). The three eyes on each face indicate that he sees each of the three worlds (earth, heaven and hell) and that he is aware of the three times (past, present and future). To symbolize the great compassion which has caused him to remain in this world and assist living beings, with his right foot he tramples the red figure of the Night of Time symbolizing the extremes of nirvana (final extinction) and with his right foot he tramples on the figure of Bhairava who represents samsara (the illusion of this world). The garland of 50 severed heads represents the purity of the 50 consonants and vowels of the Sanskrit alphabet.
August 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Hand-painted Green Tara thangka inspired by traditional Tibetan Buddhist iconography. Currently in the phase of planning the finer details before painting the details.

#Thangka#BuddhistArt #TibetanArt #TraditionalArt #Painting #WorkInProgress #WIP#PosterPaint #HandPainted #Illustration #ArtProcess
June 29, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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📰 New post

on Jörg Heimbel's 👨‍💻 blog on Tibetan Buddhist art:

🖼️Two Paintings of a Newly Identified Set Depicting the Lineage Masters of the Lamdre

artnotes.ngorpa.org/233/

#tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa
December 1, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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The Lamdre master Je Gonpawa aka Shangton Chobar
ཞང་དགོན་པ་བའམ་ཞང་སྟོན་ཆོས་འབར་གྱི་ཞལ་ཐང་།

🖼️ thangka sold at @Lempertzauction, Dec. 2024
📜 with name inscriptions of the central and the minor figures

#tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #lamdre
December 15, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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It takes days to create a sand mandala—only moments to destroy it. Sacred Tibetan art, passed down for generations, reminds us: art is not just expression, it’s survival.

#TibetanCulture #DalaiLama90 #CompassionRising #PreserveTibet #TibetanArt
May 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🗿Hevajra in the dancing posture (གར་འཁྲབ།) with his legs trampling on the four māras (བརྩེགས་གདན།) as practiced in the Ngor tradition.

After G. Tucci, Tibet: land of snows (1967), plate 72.

#tibetanart #tibetansculpture #hevajra #ngorpa
December 8, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Tibetan Buddhist Thangka painting of Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava and his 25 disciples.
- Vintage 1950s in excellent vibrant condition
-Hand painted
- 58inches x 39inches.

TAP LINK to view details.

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#gururinpoche #thangka #tibetanart #asianart #tibetan #rudraasianart
January 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Se ston kun rig as Lamdre lineal teacher
སེ་སྟོན་ཀུན་རིག་གི་ལམ་འབྲས་བླ་བརྒྱུད་གསེར་ཐང་།

🖼️ thangka in the Musée Guimet, MA 6006

After The Gongkar Lamdre: masters in Khyenluk style (Dehradun, 2024), fig. 74

#tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa 📿
April 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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‪📰 New post

on Jörg Heimbel's 👨‍💻 blog on Tibetan Buddhist art:

🖼️ Unveiling Sacred Lineage: A Newly Discovered Funerary Commission of the Ngorpa Lamdre Lineage Masters

artnotes.ngorpa.org/1482

#tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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BDG news: Rubin Museum’s Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room Reopens as Long-Term Installation at Brooklyn Museum

🔗 Read more at BDG: tinyurl.com/yayyh2w3

#Buddhism #BuddhistArt #TibetanBuddhism #Exhibition #NYC #NewYork #BrooklynMuseum #RubinMuseum #TibetanArt
Rubin Museum’s Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room Reopens as Long-Term Installation at Brooklyn Museum - Buddhistdoor Global
The Rubin’s Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room reopens at the Brooklyn Museum for a six-year stay with more than 100 artifacts
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June 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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📰 New post

on Jörg Heimbel's 👨‍💻 blog on Tibetan Buddhist art:

🖼️ From Rongtön Sheja Künrik to Lhachok Sengge: Correcting a Thangka Attribution

artnotes.ngorpa.org/1743/

#tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa
May 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Sickness stinks, but Buddhists in the #Himalaya can call on several deities to help heal. This #ThangkaTuesday highlights Ta Chak Khyung Sum (རྟ་ཕྱག་ཁྱུང་གསུམ།), a single deity who packs the power of three: blue Chana Dorje, the green horse head of Tandin, and white Khyung.

#tibetanart #buddhism
Painting of a standing, two armed dark blue deity with three eyes, stretching out his right hand and holding his left hand at heart level. He's standing on a lotus and is surrounded by orange and red flames. In his upswept hair is a small green horse's head and above the hair is a white mythical bird called a Garuda.
February 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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For #ThangkaTuesday, and for no other reason whatsoever, here are some #Buddhist images of leopards eating faces:

Padmasambahva & Yeshe Tsogyal in a thangka of the problem-pinning deity Dorjé Phurbu, as tigers and leopards dig in to some face flesh nearby.

#tibetanart #leopards #himalaya
Detail of a painting showing a seated Buddhist master in robes holding ritual implements. Next to his halo to the right, a leopard eats the face of a prone human, while a bird removes the entrails of another body above. Below the master's lotus base, another feline bites into a body.
February 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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🧾New journal issue Orientations 55/6, Nov/Dec 2024 with an article by Karl Ryavec on a special #Ngorpa lineage #thangka of the #Lamdre A Previously Unknown Chinese Landscape Tradition of the Ngor School of Tibetan Painting, 92-98. https://t.co/rTdFQys2dB #tibetanart #sakyapa
December 1, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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I visited it today, and the exhibition is surprisingly extensive & broad in scope. Definitely worth a visit 👌 And the #museum’s other current special exhibitions are well worth seeing too.

#ChineseArt #JapaneseArt #KoreanArt #TibetanArt #MOK #Cologne
August 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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This is a stunningly beautiful painting in the early #Gyantse style. #tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa Check out the Nagel auction site for better pictures: https://t.co/YIPRqI4pbY https://t.co/Rabdg9Qa6J
December 1, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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BDG news: Buddhist Art: Tibetan Artist Anay Ngawang Chodak to Hold Solo Exhibition in New York City

🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/ykmf2cud

#Buddhism #BuddhistArt #BuddhistArtists #India #Nepal #Kathmandu #NYC #NewYorkCity #ArtExhibition #TibetanArt #TibetanBuddhism
Buddhist Art: Tibetan Artist Anay Ngawang Chodak to Hold Solo Exhibition in New York City - Buddhistdoor Global
The celebrated Tibetan artist Anay Ngawang Chodak will hold his first solo exhibition in the US next month at New York City’s Kate Oh Gallery.
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May 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Take a break from doomscrolling with #ThangkaTuesday, featuring green Tara (སྒྲོལ་ལྗང་།), who saves Buddhist faithful from the eight great fears, one of which is snakes.

#TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistArt #Himalaya #Buddhist #Buddhism #TibetanArt
Detail of a painting of a green, two-armed figure sitting on a lotus, surrounded by a multicolored halo, holding out her right hand toward a small snake. She also holds a blue lotus flower in each hand. A vertical format traditional Tibetan Buddhist painting showing eight green female figures, each of which is sitting on a lotus and surrounded by a halo around their head and another around their body. The haloes are orange while the rest of the composition is mostly green, blue, and gold, with some pink in the lotuses. Each figure holds out her right hand to gesture toward the representation of an obstacle.
February 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Mahakala
gilt copper
China or Mongolia
18th-19th century

#asianart #tibetanart #Mahakala #sculpture #buddhistsculpture #antiqueart #antiquebuddhistsculpture #giltcopper #chinesebuddhistart #mongolianart #artasiatique #buddhistart #protection #transformation #spiritualpower
Mahakala is a powerful deity revered in both Hinduism and Buddhism, particularly within Tibetan Buddhism. In Buddhism, he is known as a "Dharmapala," or Protector of the Dharma, and is often depicted as a fierce and wrathful figure. He is also considered a manifestation of a Buddha, and in Hinduism, he is a manifestation of the god Shiva. Mahakala is a significant deity in Vajrayana Buddhism who embodies the essential principles of protection, transformation, and spiritual power. Known for his fierce demeanor and dynamic nature, Maha Kala transcends the conventional role of a guardian; he represents an active force that empowers practitioners to confront and overcome the myriad obstacles on their journey to enlightenment. This deity is often depicted with a wrathful expression, symbolizing the intensity required to cut through ignorance and delusion. As "The Fierce One," his fierce appearance serves as a profound reminder that spiritual growth often demands facing one's fears and embracing challenges. Additionally, Maha Kala’s multifaceted character reflects the complexity of the spiritual path, highlighting the balance between power and compassion, destruction and creation. As a protector of the teachings, he incorporates the transformative energy that allows practitioners to navigate their inner struggles while fostering resilience and clarity.
May 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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BDG News: Landmark Exhibit of Artifacts from Sakya Monastery Opens at Palace Museum, Beijing

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/4d87jvym

#Buddhism #BuddhistArt #Exhibition #TibetanArt #Vajrayana #TibetanBuddhism #Tibet #Beijing #SakyaMonastery
Landmark Exhibit of Artifacts from Sakya Monastery Opens at Palace Museum, Beijing - Buddhistdoor Global
This new exhibit is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the monks of Sakya Monastery and the Palace Museum
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March 5, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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In Tibet, on the way from the airport to Lhasa (March 2008)

#Tibet #TibetanBuddhism #Buddhism #BuddhistArt #TibetanArt #FolkArt #spirituality #Buddha #meditation
Bright, colorful Tibetan Buddhist paintings on a rocky, beige mountain: On the left, 3 boddhisatvas in a row, including white Tara. On the right, a blue-haired gold Buddha clad in bright orange robes. Prayer flags and greeting scarves are strung in front of the paintings and billow in the wind.
May 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓻𝓮𝔂𝓪 — 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓾𝓭𝓭𝓱𝓪 𝓨𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓮

#Art #TraditionalArt #BuddhistArt #Maitreya #FutureBuddha #ChineseArt #TibetanArt #Thangka #ThangkaInspired #SacredArt #AsianArt #OriginalArt #Painting #ArtistsOnBluesky #Buddhism
Maitreya The Buddha of the Future, seated in serene anticipation, embodying boundless compassion and the promise of awakening. This painting draws inspiration from the classical painting traditions of China and Tibet, where graceful linework, luminous color, and sacred symbolism come together in quiet harmony. Every fold of the robe, every ornamental detail, and every brushstroke is an offering toward an image that speaks of hope, patience, and loving-kindness. "NAMO RATNA TRAYAYA NAMO BHAGAVATE SHAKYAMUNIYE TATHAGATAYA ARHATE SAMYAK SAM BUDDHAYA TADYATHA: OM AJITE AJITE APARAJITE AJITAN CHAYA HARA HARA MAITRI AVALOKITE KARA KARA MAHA SAMAYA SIDDHI BHARA BHARA MAHA BODHI MÄNDA VIJA MARA MARA ATMAKAM SAMAYA BODHI BODHI MAHA BODHI SVAHA" "Akashaya stith yavat yavaccha jagata stitih Tamam mama stitih bhuyat jagat dukhani nir nata"
July 12, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Title— The Compassionate One

#BuddhistArt #Buddha #OmManiPadmeHum #TibetanArt #TibetanBuddhism #MongolianArt #BuddhistCalligraphy #InkArt #InkPainting #SacredArt #AsianArt #TraditionalArt #MeditativeArt #OriginalArt #ArtistsOnBluesky #ArtOnBluesky
A minimalist Buddhist ink painting depicting a serene Buddha rendered primarily in grey and black ink. A luminous sky-blue halo surrounds the figure, providing the composition's only major colour accent. The mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum" appears alongside the Buddha in lettering inspired by Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist calligraphic traditions. The restrained palette and flowing ink lines create a contemplative, devotional atmosphere centered on compassion and awakening.
August 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM