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	Thangka
JohnWaterman
4-7-2009 3:57 PM
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4-7-2009 3:58 PM
JohnWaterman
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4-8-2009 12:21 PM
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these are so beautiful...
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f2740737-fd1a-40b3-bea3-cf689f3dc996/8EA7CDE1-5B5B-49ED-96D3-5C1E2FECE93B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas" style="font-size: 11px;">www.colourlovers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/222314F8-0364-4887-96FB-CCF6D2CFCE46" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><P>A <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thangka">Thangka</A> is a painted or embroidered Buddhist banner which is hung in a monastery or a family altar and occasionally carried by monks in ceremonial processions. It first became popular among traveling monks because the scroll paintings were easily rolled and transported from monastery to monastery.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas">The Thangkas are explosions of color. The paint powder comes from grinding materials like coral, agate, sapphire, pearl and gold</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/6702841D-7618-43E1-81DD-99E8655A74D3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/7225C20C-F25B-4F45-A03B-EEBEEE73D794" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas">are often overflowing with symbolism and allusion</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/DC1668AD-13C1-4097-BD0D-AC31A0800620" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><H2>Types of Thangkas</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><P><STRONG>Black Background</STRONG>: a painting type used for accentuating the fierceness of wrathful subjects.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thangka.ru/gallery/ge_simkh_a.html" href="http://www.thangka.ru/gallery/ge_simkh_a.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thangka.ru</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thangka.ru/gallery/ge_simkh_a.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thangka.ru/img/1074C674-9BF1-459D-830A-5AFD215E4855" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas" style="font-size: 11px;">www.colourlovers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><P><STRONG>Gold Background</STRONG>: a special treatment for peaceful deities, long-life deities and buddhas.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/B6B9E9A0-0B55-4C19-BFBF-0104E647314C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><P><STRONG>Red Background</STRONG>: paintings with a ground of vermillion, iron oxide.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/AFF6F841-92A7-4BD0-8845-E46EDB377794" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><P><STRONG>Colored Background</STRONG>: the majority of Himalayan & Tibetan paintings belong to this classification of colored tangka.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/E893FFA4-53FC-40BF-8C40-F614C96C52F9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/8DF1E8EA-612B-4BBC-BABB-4A4DE3576B5A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/A30AE8EE-306E-427E-BFE8-3BB5E1B2A32B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/7BD0E114-6C4A-4CDF-B750-4793F0B92F64" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/FF4795F7-E044-47C5-8839-DD4B40F31536" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/C4EB895C-3EFC-4331-B312-C2CED33F1F6D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/BBC0D0B6-B7E7-4511-913D-E34352358E4C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/EAD1A4CD-EE7C-47FD-A281-0E7EE8BB749C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/1822238B-8423-4980-B8DE-B2EB458F420B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/AD69813D-3648-4FD4-B4B0-7C507999942B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/30D7C83D-EC7A-4CD0-9794-7A6F2DACE39A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><P>The largest Thangka in the world was created in 1999 and is 675 yards long. Here are two giant Thangkas.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/DF0C8C42-D0E0-4AD0-A0C3-657AF226A53B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/AF1A24A7-AFE7-408A-969F-F4B0B4F44202" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-colorful-art-of-thangkas"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/81EC7C13-36C7-4F49-A3AA-630ADF181E4F" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8EA7CDE1-5B5B-49ED-96D3-5C1E2FECE93B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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