Himalayan Art Resources

Red Ground Book Covers

Carved wooden blocks rectangular in shape, and often gilded and painted, serve as covers for the stacks of loose-leaf pages of Himalayan books. The wood block covers can be generally divided into four main subjects based on design: decorative, figurative, lantsha script and red ground.

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Book Review: Thangkas of the Twenty-One Taras: Tibet Museum, Lhasa

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Artists Known Through Literature

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Black Hayagriva Chronology

Traditions:
- Dawa Gyaltsen, 11th century: #77562, #52548712 (Rinjung Lineage Folio 288).
- Nyangral Nyima Ozer, 1124-1192: #583, #15506, #52548709, #82106
- Guru Chowang, 1212-1270: #4
- Sanggye Lingpa, 1340-1396 (Lama Gongdu): Riding a Tiger: #893, #15229, #102212
- Pema Lingpa, 1450–1521: #51946243
- Three Faces, Six Hands: #65262
- Others...

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Book Review: A History of Tibetan Painting

A History of Tibetan Painting, The Great Tibetan Painters and their Traditions. David Jackson. Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wien, 1996. (See a selection of paintings).

Artists Known For Their Art

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Painting Sets of Khazi Lhazo

Khazi Lhazo was a prolific artist by all accounts. Depending on the number of paintings in some of the known sets it is calculated to be between 80 and 150 compositions currently known to have been created. The Ford Mahasiddha set of two currently known paintings, a set of thirteen compositions depicting the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas, a single Naropa painting from a larger set, along with a seven painting set of Dalai Lama incarnations are all related stylistically and iconographically to each other.

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Vajradaka Hand Gesture

Vajradaka (Tibetan: dor je kan dro). A deity of purification from the Vajradaka Ta**ra belonging to the larger category of the Chakrasamvara Cycle of Ta**ras.

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