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Material about Tibetan art including images, reference material, and articles.

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• - Brief description of mandalas, including a computer model developed at Cornell University.
  
• - Descriptions and illustrations of touring exhibits of sacred music, sacred dance, mandala sand painting, art, and photos of Tibet. Includes tour schedule and contact information.
  
• - A selection of thangkas, some with descriptions.
  
• - Art and culture of Tibetan chod practitioners and dakinis.
  
• - A gallery of Deities from Tibetan Buddhist tradition rendered through Photoshop and the Web.
  
• - A celebration of the female spirit as manifest in the Dakini. Some images of Dakinis with a brief discussion of the symbolism.
  
• - A gallery of paintings and prints of the Twenty One Taras paintings accompanied by corresponding verses of traditional prayers. Available as prints or new commissions.
  
• - A sorted Archive of Tibetan Thangka Art
  
• - A collection of thangkas including brief descriptions.
  
• - A project that helps Dharma Centers in the world create large Buddhist statues from bronze, wood and concrete. Image gallery of completed projects and information about works in progress.
  
• - Some images of dakinis, including headless ones. Also images of thogchags. Comments on both.
  
• - A collection of the tantric paintings.
  
• - Brief descriptions of types of art and samples of chanting and ritual music (in .wav format.)
  
• - A selection of thangkas from the collection of the Buryat Historical Museum with a brief description of the museum.
  
• - Miksang means Good Eye in Tibetan. Fine Art Photography that works with a contemplative style called Miksang. See new exhibit titled "In Quiet Places".
  
• - Tibetan Thangka Gallery # 1 from the Taeger Collection, 20 temporary paintings by Tibetan artists
  
• - A collection of Tibetan and Nepalese Thangka paintings featuring Red, Green, and White Tara; Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara); Manjushri, Boddhisattva, Mandalas; Wheel of Life; Mahakaal; Yab Yum; Kuber; Ganesha.
  
• - Guide to Tibetan Art, Theatre & Music. The WWW Virtual Library entry provides a central access point to online resources dealing with Tibetan art.
  
• - A brief description of the general meaning of mandalas.
  
• - Fourteen Tibetan paintings of mandalas dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with commentary, and descriptive catalog.
  
• - Tibetan monks are using the camera for the first time to document and share their lives and culture in exile. Several galleries of photographs and related material.
  
• - The Rezk Collection of Tibetan Art from the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Eight-five images with explanatory text accompanied by forty-seven related essays.
  
• - A school in Dharamsala, India that teaches the art of Tibetan thangka painting. Commissions are accepted for specific thangkas.
  
• - The Tibetan Buddhist Buddha of Compassion: Chenresig (Avalokiteshvara)
  
• - An essay regarding the temple guardians (Dharmapalas) of Tibet, including their hagiography, role in current religion, art history, reference to sacred landscape and mandala, and place in the Tibetan Pantheon.
  
• - The school, in Kathmandu, Nepal, is supervised by Nyingma lamas. Site contains images of more than 300 thangkas, illustrated essays detailing the creation process and symbolism. Works can be commissioned or purchased.
  
• - Tthe work of Sanje Elliott, thangka painter. Paintings done in the traditional Karma Ghadri style of Tibetan Sacred Art. Gallery of thangkas and information on classes.
  
• - A collection of illustrated articles about Buddhist and Hindu art. Topics include Dance of the Yogini, The Bodhisattva Ideal; Tantric Buddhist Art; and Green Tara and White Tara - Feminist Ideals in Buddhist Art.
  
• - Osel Shen Phen Ling copyright-free line drawings from various tibetan sources. Java applets for a prayer wheel and candle offerings.
  
• - Sculpture, temple and stupa art, and rituals. Includes many images as well as detailed text.
  
• - History and explanation of mandalas, with photos.
  
• - Description and images from the creation of a sand mandala.
  
• - Tibetan Sand Mandala Tour 2001 and 2002 in New Zealand. Information about and images of Chenrezig Tibetan Sand Mandalas.
  
• - There have been people asking why the deities in Tibetan Buddhism, especially the Dharma Protectors and deities of the Highest Yoga Tantra are so wrathful and fierce in looks. The look of wrathfulness is also the same as compassion.
  
• - Illustrated discussion of mandalas, their creation and their place within Buddhist Tantric practice.
  
• - Gallery showing hand-stitched mosaics of silk by a contemporary textile artist working in the Tibetan tradition. Information on creation process and history of fabric thangkas.
  
• - Creators of silk appliques thangkas and paintings, unique historic Tibetan art projects and films.
  
  

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