Buddhist iconography

Tenzing Rigdol enters a political debate that is disruptive, slippery, and without comparison in Tibetan contemporary art.

Wheel of Life — the embodiment of samsara in the Buddhist view in the form of a circle. The Buddhist doctrine of cause and effect, which Buddha realized under the bodhi tree.

A must for artists, designers, and all with an interest in Buddhist and Tibetan art.

Tricycle Jeff Watt 25 April 2013 Buddhist artistic traditions of the Himalayas, Tibet, and Central Asia are believed to follow established guidelines for determining body proportions in figu…

Painting with decorative borders, mounted on support panel. Would have originally been in thangka format. Dark-skinned, ferocious Mahakala stands on a corpse, holding a skull cup and chopper. He is surrounded by seated Bodhisattvas and religious preceptors as well as dancing Dakinis and ferocious deities.

From: The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols by Robert Beer

Read "The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols" by available from Rakuten Kobo. A deep and encompassing dive into the vast array of symbols and attributes that appear within the complex iconography of...

Himalayan Art Resources features thousands of artworks from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India, China and Mongolia. The site presents art from leading private and museum collections, accompanied by scholarship, cataloging and interpretation.

When entering a Tibetan Buddhist monastery for the first time, it is very easy to feel overwhelmed by the incredible variety of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and deities – some angry, some peaceful, and all almost always very colorful. But who is who and how can we distinguish the

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