Himalayan Art - A Magnificent Poem That Is Beyond Ordinary
Painting the Palace Walls: Artists of the Potala
On the crimson mountain ridge, there are red and white palaces built, white as pure as milk, offered to the shining palace.This temple in the hearts of believers, white like...
Painting the Palace Walls: Artists of the Potala
On the crimson mountain ridge, there are red and white palaces built, white as pure as milk, offered to the shining palace.This temple in the hearts of believers, white like...
The Deer of Tibet: Spirits of the Gods
Just like the deer in the "Six Longevity Paintings", in South Asian tradition, deer are believed to possess wisdom and extraordinary concentration (གཏིང་འཛིན་). They are not easily distracted by external...
The Deer of Tibet: Spirits of the Gods
Just like the deer in the "Six Longevity Paintings", in South Asian tradition, deer are believed to possess wisdom and extraordinary concentration (གཏིང་འཛིན་). They are not easily distracted by external...
The Sage's Crown: Law Hats in Himalayan Art
Many years ago, Lume Tsering（ཀླུ་མེས་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཤེས་རབ་）, the seeker of the Dharma, was about to leave his teacher, the great Tibetan Buddhist master, Lachen Gongba Ralse. This year was 978 AD. Before...
The Sage's Crown: Law Hats in Himalayan Art
Many years ago, Lume Tsering（ཀླུ་མེས་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཤེས་རབ་）, the seeker of the Dharma, was about to leave his teacher, the great Tibetan Buddhist master, Lachen Gongba Ralse. This year was 978 AD. Before...
Spider Hats of the Brokpa: Bhutan's Snowland Tribe
HatIs the main clothing feature of the Drokpa peopleCalled tsipee cham or Shamo orrtsidpa zhamo(རྩིད་པའི་ཞྭ་མོ། Yak wool felt hat)It is a hat shaped like a spiderMade of yak wool, blackShaped like...
Spider Hats of the Brokpa: Bhutan's Snowland Tribe
HatIs the main clothing feature of the Drokpa peopleCalled tsipee cham or Shamo orrtsidpa zhamo(རྩིད་པའི་ཞྭ་མོ། Yak wool felt hat)It is a hat shaped like a spiderMade of yak wool, blackShaped like...
Pure Blue Nectar: Dromtonpa and the Fragrant Se...
Odors are considered a weapon for people to resist disharmony, a good that creates individual space and sustains public space. Whether it is smoke offerings or incense burning, odors are believed to...
Pure Blue Nectar: Dromtonpa and the Fragrant Se...
Odors are considered a weapon for people to resist disharmony, a good that creates individual space and sustains public space. Whether it is smoke offerings or incense burning, odors are believed to...
Shangri-La Revisited: A Land Unconnected to the...
We find that, in general, Tibetans are not as fragile as other ethnic groups because they are accustomed to high-altitude environmental conditions; and they are kind-hearted, so we have taken...
Shangri-La Revisited: A Land Unconnected to the...
We find that, in general, Tibetans are not as fragile as other ethnic groups because they are accustomed to high-altitude environmental conditions; and they are kind-hearted, so we have taken...