CategoriesCultural and Religious Styles
Himalayan Art
Buddhist and Hindu art of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Ladakh: thangka paintings, gilt-copper sculpture, mandalas and painted temples.
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Himalayan art is the religious art of the mountain regions: Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Ladakh and their neighbours, with ties reaching Mongolia and imperial China. Its images are tools of devotion and meditation, and they follow exact systems of proportion and colour, so that a deity can be identified by posture, attributes and hand gestures.
Newar artists of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley were famed for gilt-copper sculpture and were invited across the region; one of them, Anige, led workshops at the Mongol court in 13th-century Beijing. In Tibet, painters make thangkas, scroll paintings in mineral pigment on cotton that can be rolled and carried, while temples such as Alchi in Ladakh and the 15th-century Kumbum at Gyantse keep painted interiors. Peaceful deities sit beside wrathful protectors wreathed in flame, and mandalas map a deity's palace as nested squares and circles. Tsherin Sherpa and Tenzing Rigdol bring thangka training into contemporary work.
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