This beautiful hand painted Tibetan thangka depicts Shakyamuni Buddha སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ། (aka Gautama Buddha) sitting on a lotus platform upon a Lion Throne. The Buddha is seated with his right hand in earth-touching bhumisparsa mudra and with an alms bowl filled with nectar in his left hand. He is surrounded by the Seventeen Great Masters (Pandits) of Nalanda Monastery.
Buddha Shakyamuni and the Seventeen Great Scholars of Nalanda Monastery (by numbers):
1. Aryadeva འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་ | 2. Nāgārjuna ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ། | 3. Gunaprabha ཡོན་ཏན་འོད་ | 4. Dignaga ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་ | 5. Bhavaviveka ལེགས་ལྡན་འབྱེད་ | 6. Buddhapalita སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས་ | 7. Chandrakirti ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་ | 8. Shantideva ཞི་བ་ལྷ་ | 9. Jowo Jé Palden Atisha ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་ |10. Asanga ཐོགས་མེད་ | 11. Vasubandhu དབྱིག་གཉེན་ | 12. Shakyaprabha ཤཱཀྱ་འོད་ | 13. Dharmakirti ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ | 14. Haribhadra སེང་གེ་བཟང་པོ་ | 15. Arya Vimuktisena འཕགས་པ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་སྡེ་ | 16. Kamalashila པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་ | 17. Shantarakshita ཞི་བ་འཚོ་ | 18. Buddha Shakyamuni སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་
The thangka is painted entirely by hand on cotton canvas using natural mineral and vegetable pigments with 24K gold details. The complicated designs, intricate brushstrokes, and extraordinary detail make these thangkas authentic works of Buddhist art. A true masterpiece, this traditional Buddhist painting is the perfect addition to your home, meditation space, room shrine or altar space.
Handcrafted by master local artists in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
Size: Full canvas measures approximately 122*90 centimeters. Inside painted area measures about 116*82 centimeters. Handcrafted in Nepal.
Buddha Shakyamuni Thangkas
Traditional. Precious. Masterpiece.
We aspire to create sublime artworks. Each painting is meticulously painted by a local artist in a process that takes many days up to many months. We use traditional methods, tools and paints to produce beautiful Buddhist art that shows our deep reverence to the Dharma.
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We offer a selection of beautiful traditional silk brocades for our thangka paintings and mandalas with different patterns and colorful decors.
There are two main types of brocades styles: Indian style brocades, also known as Banarasi brocades, and Chinese style brocades.
