Types of thangka

1. According to content: Buddha Thangka, Chuan Thangka, Shi Thangka, Myth Thangka, Jiao Thangka, Astronomy Thangka, Li Thangka, Tibetan Medicine Thangka, etc.

2. According to the size: huge thangka, ordinary thangka and small thangka.

3, according to the material: embroidered Thangka, embroidered with various colors of silk thread, this Thangka is tough and durable, not easy to destroy; Thangka, adopting the method of "letting the warp pass and breaking the weft", is interwoven with various wefts where patterns need to be woven, and the carved stone and wood have a three-dimensional effect.

4. Hand-painted Thangkas are divided into: colorful Tang (white background, painted in various colors), golden Tang (gold background), silver Tang (silver background), red Tang (red background) and black Tang (black background).

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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.

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.