How many colors are there in Thangka?

Thangka is generally painted in more than 30 colors, and some even have as many as 50 colors.

Thangka, also called Thangka, is a transliteration of Tibetan, which refers to a religious scroll painting mounted with colored satin and hung for worship. Thangka is a unique painting art form in Tibetan culture, and its theme covers many fields such as Tibetan history, politics, culture and social life. Thangka handed down from ancient times is mostly Tibetan Buddhism and local teachings.

Thangka is a unique painting art form in Tibetan culture. It has distinctive national characteristics, strong religious color and unique artistic style, and depicts the sacred Buddhist world with bright colors; Traditionally, all precious mineral gems such as gold, silver, pearls, agate, coral, turquoise, malachite and cinnabar, as well as plants such as saffron, rhubarb and indigo are used as pigments to show their sacredness.

These natural materials ensure that the painted Thangka is bright and dazzling, and it is still bright and bright after hundreds of years. Therefore, Thangka is regarded as the treasure of national painting art in China, the "encyclopedia" of Tibetans and the precious intangible cultural heritage of folk art in China. Thangka is generally painted in more than 30 colors, and some even have as many as 50 colors.

Thangka's Painting Theme

Thangka is known as the "encyclopedia of Tibetan culture", and its theme is mainly religion, involving history, politics, economy, culture, folk customs, secular life, architecture, medicine, astronomy, calendar and other fields.

Generally, it can be divided into religious and non-religious categories.

Religious categories include: mandala painting, bunsen burner, gathering trees, statues of ancestors, biographies of life, buddhas and bodhisattvas, Buddha dharma, emptiness, arhat, reincarnation of life and death, western paradise and so on.

Non-religious categories include: history, legends and stories, astronomical calendars, Tibetan medicine, etc.

One of the most common is the religious painting-Buddha statue. This kind of thangka generally depicts the main characters in the center, starting from the upper corner of the picture, surrounding the main body, and covering the characters, activities or stories related to the central characters clockwise. Each Thangka painting generally describes a relatively complete story, and the scenery of the picture changes with the needs of the story, not limited by history, time and space. The characters in the picture are not affected by the far and near perspectives, and the composition is balanced, plump and changeable.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Thangka