What is "thangka"?

"Thangka" is a Tibetan word. The meaning of "thang" has to do with space, indicating vastness. It is like painting hundreds or even thousands of Buddhas on a piece of cloth, or just one Buddha. The word "kha" is a bit of a magic trick, referring to a blank space being filled. A thangka, in fact, is a Tibetan scroll painting.

Tangka, refers to the use of colored satin framed and hung for worship of religious scroll paintings, is a Tibetan culture in a unique form of painting art, with distinctive national characteristics, rich religious colors and unique artistic style, depicted in bright colors, pigments are traditionally all gold, silver, pearls, agate, coral, turquoise, vermilion, vermilion, such as precious mineral gemstones and saffron, Saffron, rhubarb, indigo and other plants are used as pigments to show their sanctity. Thangka color is bright, brilliant, after a hundred years is still colorful and bright. Therefore, it is regarded as the treasures of Chinese national painting art, known as the "encyclopedia" of the Tibetan people, and also a precious intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese folk art.

The thangka vividly depicts religious culture, making the various images therein come to life. At present, the "Baidu network disk towards the cloud digital collection platform" has launched a thangka digital collection, beautifully produced, rich in variety, there are wide-eyed heavenly king and white umbrella mother of Buddha to protect the country and bless the people of the digital collection, as well as highlighting the perfect wisdom of the wheel of the vajra and wrath of the vajra digital collection, and so on, on September 14, 12:00 noon began to sell, the global limited to 1000 copies. 1000 copies, interested can go to see, open the Baidu.com disk APP, click "my" - "more services" - "digital collectibles". - "Digital Collectibles", you can enter the platform's digital collectibles mall.