Thangka has four main functions:
1, Worship function: Thangka is easy to carry, and its content embodies the solemnity, sacredness and luxury of Tibetan Buddhism, and it is the object of worship for Buddhist disciples at any time.
2. Communication function: Thangka bears the essence of Tibetan culture, is the crystallization of the wisdom of Tibetan people, and can fully display Tibetan history, culture and religious ethics.
3. Purification function: Thangka is an important tool for Buddhist disciples to practice. According to this, practitioners can eliminate the influence of evil thoughts in their hearts and get rid of their troubles.
4. Aesthetic function: Thangka's gorgeous colors, smooth lines, rigorous structure and rich Tibetan customs are rare artistic treasures.
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Embroidered Tibetan Buddhism Thangka
Year: Qing Dynasty style
Specification: length 50cm, width 65cm
? The spread of Tangka is related to the nomadic lifestyle of Tibetans. The wrapped Thangka has become a mobile temple for Tibetans living by the water. Wherever you go, as long as you hang it in a tent or even on a branch, it can become a symbol of Tibetan bowing, praying and contemplating. The smallest thangka is only the size of a palm and is painted on paper, cloth or sheepskin.
Recently, Shenzhen Tianyuan Culture was fortunate to get an embroidered Thangka. This Thangka is called Embroidered Tibetan Buddhism Thangka. Thangka shows two-faced and four-handed monks sitting on a lotus-based moon wheel. The paintings are mottled with years, but the colors are still bright and bright. The three main colors of red, blue and green are gorgeous and elegant, which makes us feel the solemnity of red, the nobility of blue and the freshness of green. It is through this color composition that Thangka painters make the viewers realize the extraordinary charm brought by religious art.
Thangka can be divided into:
(1) Embroidered Thangka. Embroidered with various colors of silk thread, this Thangka is tough and durable, and it is not easy to be destroyed.
② Thangka. With the method of "drawing warp and breaking weft", different colors of weft and warp are interwoven where patterns need to be woven, and the carved stone and wood have a three-dimensional effect.
(3) Brocade Thangka. The texture is mostly satin, and the weft is composed of various silk threads, which are woven into the required patterns, images and scenery in staggered jacquard weaving.
④ Pile embroidery, also known as decal Thangka. First, cut various colors of satin into figures (figures, birds and animals, trees, pavilions, flowers and plants, etc.). ) and paste it on the Thangka base material.
(5) draw thangka. Most of them are painted on paper, cloth, cowhide and sheepskin. , and then made into thangka. Its basic painting form is the same as mural painting. In the later period, Thangka paintings developed, and some of them were carved into printed boards for printing, which could become "printed Thangka".
(6) Pearl Thangka. Pearl Thangka is a special variety in Thangka paintings, and the number is very small. Thangka, the Tara Pearl of Changzhu Temple in Shannan, Tibet, consists of tens of thousands of pearl treasures and artistic stones. Its shape is elegant and generous, and it is expensive.
But from the collection point of view, embroidery works are more valuable. Because in history, the embroidered silk reeling Thangka was customized for the royal family in Suzhou and other places, which has extremely high cultural value, and this material is very precious, difficult to make and difficult to preserve, because its surface has high collection value.