Creating mandalas based on sacred geometry feels like an anchor of presence, logic, and freedom. It brings sense and beauty to my daily practice and existence.  ~ Tiffani Gyatso

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Shri devi (Palden Lhamo), Central Tibet, circa 1750-1850.

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Umika Mediratta Shriram. An Oasis in All of This, 2023.

acrylic on canvas

A black ground thangka of Vajrabhairava. Tibet, 18th century

Tibetan, Green Tara, ca. 1260s, tempera/cotton (Museum of Art, Cleveland)

I think I just fried a few brain cells getting my new watercolor palettes in order lmao, getting back on the horse there after a long hiatus

Some of my old paints were casualties in the move or are just Not Good anymore (being older than the average Tumblr user) and I have to replace them, but I'm REALLY persnickety about single-pigment watercolors so finding replacements was sometimes challenging. Some they don't even MAKE anymore lmao o where art thou Nickel Dioxine Yellow PY153 I weep

Anyway when my 10 tubes of fresh paint get here I'll have a new high-chroma palette (6 colors), the final color in a large granulating/earth palette I've been slowly assembling for ages (18 colors total!), and my personal favorite palette, which heavily biases to cool tones and pretty much totally lacks an orange lmao (5 colors, admittedly bizarre). I'll also be completing my collection of the 6 Daniel Smith Mayan pigments, which I look at as a sort of 'challenge' palette that could be very fun - right now I have the 3 warm colors, I'll be adding in the 3 cool ones. (A number of these palettes have some overlap, so I don't actually have like... 35 tubes of paint lol)

Looking forward to doing a bunch of swatching and making up some mixing and glazing charts, I love that kind of shit tbh. Will I use every last one of these colors regularly? Nah, but I'll have a lot of fun putting them through their paces and trying new things!

It is necessary to learn that you are worthy of being loved. The Buddha put it quite simply: "You can search the whole tenfold universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here—yourself." Self-compassion and self-forgiveness are not weaknesses, but the roots of our courage and magnanimity. Sometimes compassion for ourselves and others seems hard to find. But even if you lose touch with these feelings during your most intense suffering, compassion is an essential part of our true nature. In fact, it is in this self-compassion and self-love that you find the strength to carry a lamp through your darkest nights. And it is by first practicing self-compassion that you find not only a way to hold your own struggles and sorrows in your heart—but through them you learn how to connect with the sufferings and sorrows of all those around. ~ Jack Kornfield Buddha’s Wisdom #wisdom #compassion #dhamma #buddha #bodhisattva #enlightenment #spiritualgrowth #thangka #art #paintings (at Nepal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chlgy5oPpAs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Learn Important Facts About The Thangka White Tara Painting

White Tara can be described as Mother Buddha. She is considered as the Female Buddha and the goddess of compassion and healing in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The Life Of Buddha Thangka Paintings is well depicted in Thangka paintings, and you will learn exciting facts about Lord Buddha.

Enlightenment is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a very high mountain one always sees the sun. ~ Chögya Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

Thangka of The Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tubten Gyatso (1875 - 1933), 1st half of the 20th century, Tibet.

Photorealistic portrait in a traditional colorful thangka setting. Handprints from a master on the back. Mounting on brocade.

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Discovering Tibet at Norbulingka Institute, Dharamshala

After his exile from Tibet in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama established his home in the beautiful mountain town of Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. Keeping the spiritual and peaceful country alive in India, the Tibetan community offers arts and culture courses at the serene Norbulingka Institute of Tibetan Culture For most of us, Tibet is a land lost in time. Most of the first-generation people…

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A black-ground thangka painting of Panjarnata Mahakala - Tibet, 19th century