Karma Kagyu Lineage Refuge Tree Thangka
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Tibetan Thangka painting depicting Karma Kagyu Lineage Refuge Tree is perfect for various home décor ideas! This 100% hand-drawn Thangka painting made in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal can be decorated as an elegant and eccentric wall hanging in your home or office being a centrepiece of attention. It can also be placed on your family altar for meditation purposes as well as spiritual and emotional healing, attracting benevolent energy of the Tibetan Buddhist art.
- Masterpiece Thangka
- Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
- Materials: Dust Of Gold With Tibetan Colors mixed with Hide Glue
- Canvas: Organic Cotton
- Origin: Nepal
- Hand Painted In Nepal
This detailed explanation features a thangka painting of the Karma Kagyu (ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད།) Lineage Tree (ཚོགས་ཞིང་།), also known as Refuge Assembly, Refuge Field, Merit Field, Field of Merit or Field of Accumulation, with depictions and names in English and Tibetan of the gurus and main figures of the Kagyu lineage. The main figure in this refuge tree is Vajradhara, aka Dorje Chang རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་.
The Kagyu (literally means “Oral Lineage” or “Whispered Transmission”) lineage of Tibetan Buddhism traces its origins to Shakyamuni Buddha (སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།) through Marpa the Great Translator (མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ།), who traveled to India three times to bring back authentic Buddhist teachings to Tibet. His teacher, Naropa (ནཱ་རོ་པ།), received the lineage transmission from Tilopa (ཏི་ལོ་པ།) and so on, back to the Buddha himself. Marpa’s most famous student was the greatest yogi of Tibet, Jetsun Milarepa (རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ།), who passed the teachings on to Gampopa (སྒམ་པོ་པ།), who in turn transmitted the teachings to the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa (དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ།). Since then, the Kagyu Lineage has been headed by a succession of reincarnations of the Gyalwang Karmapa (ཀརྨ་པ།). The line of the Karmapas is said to be self-announced, because each incarnation leaves a letter predicting his next rebirth. All great Kagyü teachers regard His Holiness Karmapa as the embodiment and source of all of the blessings of the lineage.
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Karma Kagyu Lineage Refuge Tree Thangka
ADD A TRADITIONAL HAND EMBROIDERY SILK BROCADE
Want to add a Brocade to your beautiful Thangka Painting? Traditional Style Brocade has been one of the most popular form of mounting as it has a greater religious merit.
THANGKA, A SACRED ART
Tibetan Thangka paintings, also known as the “Art of Enlightenment”, are sacred pieces of art that are rich in symbolism. They are important supports that are revered for meditation and visualization.
The Tibetan thangka meaning goes deeper than just sacred art and conveys reverence. An art form is genuinely sacred when it awakens a direct experience deeper than our ordinary selves and the material world in the mind.
We are proud to offer our customers only the best selection of Tibetan art. All our paintings go through a rigorous screening process in our studio and are guaranteed to be origianl and authentic.
100% COTTON CANVAS & NATURAL MINERALS
Preparing the Cotton canvas before starting to paint a Thangka. This process includes washing, drying, stretching, sizing and everything needed to make a perfect base for the thangka to last for centuries.
Thangka paintings are painted using natural minerals such as agate, gold, silver, cinnabar, saffron, ocher, rhubarb,lapis and many other minerals. To create the ideal pigment for painting, these materials are ground several times. This makes the materials even more durable and long-lasting. Thus, you can surely expect the color of the Thangka to withstand the test of time.
The gold in the ornaments and detailing is made from real gold dust.