Are you interested in making Tibetan Tangka?
There is a German girl, Koko who has great interest to in painting Tangka. So she and her friends explore the Jiarong Tibetan Village – Zhuokeji Headman’s Office in Sichuan.
Sanlang Luoerwu, one of the local Jiarong Tibetan, who is the inheritor of Jiarong Tibetan Tangka. He started to learn how to paint Tangka from the predecessor when he was nine years old. When he was 26 years old, he want to inherit it as authentically. When Koko paid a visit his home, he showed us how to paint a Tangka.
Thangka is one unique painting art form of Tibetan culture . It possesses distinctive national features, rich religious colors and unique artistic style, with bright color paint sacred Buddha in the world.
The pigments is traditionally made of gold, silver, pearl, agate, coral, stone, cinnabar precious gem, saffron, rhubarb, and so on, showing its sacred.
Thangka painting process is very complex. People must paint it in accordance with the requirements of the scriptures and the ritual of guru, including the ceremony, making the canvas, color dyeing, finalizing the design and a set of processes. Painting a Thangka needs a long time, usually six months, even a longer requires more than ten years.
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