We suggest shopping with your local frame or craft store to select a style that best suits you and your thangka! Looks great in a classic Western style photo frame or wooden magnetic poster hanger frames. Measures approximately 17 by 21.5 inches. Comes unframed and ready for Western style framing of your choosing. The complicated designs, intricate brushstrokes, and extraordinary detail make these thangkas genuine works of art. ![]() This thangka is done entirely by hand on cotton canvas using natural mineral and vegetable pigments with 24K gold details. It follows natural cycles of time, the seasons and the planets, and is associated with enhancing physical and emotional balance. It is very important in Tibetan culture and is used to set dates for various Buddhist ceremonies. The Tibetan calendar is unique and lunar based. The fearsome figure holding the wheel represents impermanence and protection of the Dharma. It can be found on the outside walls of many Buddhist monasteries and temples to help people understand Buddhist teachings. One subject is the Wheel of Life ( Bhavachakra ), which is a visual representation of the Abhidharma teachings (Art of Enlightenment). The Wheel of Life is a symbolic representation of samsara and cycle of existence. Thangka serve as important teaching tools depicting the life of the Buddha, various influential lamas and other deities and bodhisattvas. Each piece of the wheel depicts its own scene. srid pa'i 'khor lo ) is a symbolic representation of cyclic existence ( samsara) found on the outside walls of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries in the Indo-Tibetan region. This thangka depicts a beautifully detailed Tibetan wheel of life and astrology calendar design filled with various deities, Tibetan animals, and beautiful scenery. A traditional Tibetan thangka showing the Wheel of Life (bhavacakra). ![]() ![]() This traditional Tibetan Buddhist painting or thangka depicts the Bhavachakra or wheel of life.
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