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The word "thangka" means "thing that one unrolls" in Classical Tibetan. [4] Thangka are very rarely signed, but some artists are known, more because they were important monastic leaders than famous as artists. Painting was a valued accomplishment in a monk. [5]
The Regong arts (or Rebgong arts) [1] are the popular arts on the subject of Tibetan Buddhism.They are painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture, and embroidery. [2] They are associated with communities in Tongren County and along the river Rongwo which crosses the current Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the province of Qinghai in China.
The metal thangka, whose durability and foldable concept was to serve travelling needs. The Papier-mâché thangka which is unique for the three-dimensional appearance of the central picture. The tshen drub ma, embroidered thangka which is typically executed in the far eastern part of Tibet and China for trade export. The woven thangka.
Large shrine statue of Maitreya, Thiksey Monastery, Ladakh, 1970. The vast majority of surviving Tibetan art created before the mid-20th century is religious, with the main forms being thangka, paintings on cloth, mostly in a technique described as gouache or distemper, [1] Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings, and small statues in bronze, or large ones in clay, stucco or wood.
The Tibetan equivalent is known as Thangka. [2] [3] The main difference between Thangka and Paubha is that Thangka is exclusive to Buddhist art, while paubha is used in both Hindu and Buddhist art traditions by the Newar community. [4] The traditional painters of paubhas are the Chitrakar caste who are known as Pun (पुं) in Nepal Bhasa. [5]
China opened another mint in Lhasa in 1792, where the minting of the Sino-Tibetan tangka took place in 1792 (only pattern tangkas with inscription in Tibetan only). The Sino-Tibetan tangkas, struck in 1793 bear an inscription in Chinese, which says, Qian Long Bao Tsang (Tibetan money of the Qian Long period) on one side and its transcription in Tibetan on the other side.