What is Thanka or Thangka or Tibetan Painting?
A Thanka or Thangka Tibetan Paining is a Buddhist religious painting. Thankas or /Thangkas use intense colors and incredibly fine detail to depict deities and other elements of the Buddhist religion. A /Thanka or Thangkas or Tibetan Painting is painted or embroidered banner which is hung in a monastery or a family altar and carried out by Buddhist monks (also called lamas in local language) in ceremonial processions. In Tibetan word Than means flat and the later word ka stands for painting. That is how /Thanka or Thangka or Tibetan Painting gets it name. The Thanka or Thangka is thus a kind of painting done on a flat surface but which can be rolled up when not in required for display or ritual works.
