Himalayan Art - A Magnificent Poem That Is Beyond Ordinary.
Papaya, pomegranate, orange, etc | Hidden metap...
The Buddhist scriptures refer to the land where we live as the Southern Jambudvipa (འཛམ་བུ་གླིང་), which is a land full of Jambu trees (जम्बु—འཛམ་བུ་). The fruit of the Jambu tree,...
Papaya, pomegranate, orange, etc | Hidden metap...
The Buddhist scriptures refer to the land where we live as the Southern Jambudvipa (འཛམ་བུ་གླིང་), which is a land full of Jambu trees (जम्बु—འཛམ་བུ་). The fruit of the Jambu tree,...
Visual Card: Zagali in Himalayan Art
Tsakali (ཙ་ཀ་ལི་ / ཙཀླི་; origins of the term are disputed) refers to a type of miniature painting used for religious practice and knowledge classification.Within the research frameworks of art history...
Visual Card: Zagali in Himalayan Art
Tsakali (ཙ་ཀ་ལི་ / ཙཀླི་; origins of the term are disputed) refers to a type of miniature painting used for religious practice and knowledge classification.Within the research frameworks of art history...
Sun and moon in Himalayan iconography: constant...
The most common usage of "sun and moon" is to pray for longevity and everlasting blessings. Additionally, the Sanskrit names of the Ten Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism may have slight...
Sun and moon in Himalayan iconography: constant...
The most common usage of "sun and moon" is to pray for longevity and everlasting blessings. Additionally, the Sanskrit names of the Ten Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism may have slight...
The Divine Gift of the Celestial Maidens: An Ex...
In Tibetan, grapes are generally referred to as རྒུན་འབྲུམ་(rgun ‘brum) or རྒུན་འབྲུ་(rgun ’bru), and in some early texts and secular literature, they are even written as དགུན་འབྲུམ་(dgun ‘brum) or རྒུ་འབྲུམ་(rgu ‘brum)....
The Divine Gift of the Celestial Maidens: An Ex...
In Tibetan, grapes are generally referred to as རྒུན་འབྲུམ་(rgun ‘brum) or རྒུན་འབྲུ་(rgun ’bru), and in some early texts and secular literature, they are even written as དགུན་འབྲུམ་(dgun ‘brum) or རྒུ་འབྲུམ་(rgu ‘brum)....
In the city of Yangbu, the Red Guanyin Temple|K...
The Buddha said, "The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara has the sun and moon in his eyes, the Great Brahma in his forehead, the Brahma King in his shoulders, the Narayana in his...
In the city of Yangbu, the Red Guanyin Temple|K...
The Buddha said, "The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara has the sun and moon in his eyes, the Great Brahma in his forehead, the Brahma King in his shoulders, the Narayana in his...
The Song of Life on the Big Tree | Tree in the ...
In Tibetan areas, in addition to tree worship under the South Asian system, their local "soul tree" (བླ་ཤིང་) and "biography tree" (རྣམ་ཐར་སྡོང་ཆེན་) also influenced the status of trees in artistic...
The Song of Life on the Big Tree | Tree in the ...
In Tibetan areas, in addition to tree worship under the South Asian system, their local "soul tree" (བླ་ཤིང་) and "biography tree" (རྣམ་ཐར་སྡོང་ཆེན་) also influenced the status of trees in artistic...