We suggest shopping with your local frame or craft store to select a style that best suits you and your thangka! Looks great in a classic Western style photo frame or wooden magnetic poster hanger frames. Measures approximately 17.3 by 22.5 inches. Comes unframed and ready for Western style framing of your choosing. The complicated designs, intricate brushstrokes, and extraordinary detail make these thangkas genuine works of art. This thangka is done entirely by hand on cotton canvas using natural mineral and vegetable pigments with 24K gold details. It follows natural cycles of time, the seasons and the planets, and is associated with enhancing physical and emotional balance. A powerful mirror for spiritual aspirants, the wheel of deluded. It is hand painted by local artists called Lama on canvas and mounted in Tibetan Silk.
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It is very important in Tibetan culture and is used to set dates for various Buddhist ceremonies. 'Wheel of Life,' this classical image from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition depicts the psychological states, or realms of existence, associated with the unenlightened state. The Tibetan calendar is unique and lunar based. The fearsome figure holding the wheel represents impermanence. It can be found on the outside walls of many Buddhist monasteries and temples to help people understand Buddhist teachings. This thangka depicts a beautifully detailed Tibetan wheel of life and astrology calendar design filled with various deities, Tibetan animals, and beautiful scenery. The Wheel of Life is a symbolic representation of samsara and cycle of existence. The word thangka translates to 'recorded message.' Thangka painting is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist art form that combines deities, symbolism, and sacred geometry. The Wheel of Life or Bhavacakra is well recognized as an important meditation technique by Buddhist monks, and also by students to learn and understand Buddha’s teachings. The size of this thangka painting is 52 x 40 cm. The wheel is divided into six segments representing the different lokas. This Wheel of Life Thangka is handpainted on cotton canvas by a Master artist. Each piece of the wheel depicts its own scene. A Thangka of the Wheel of Life, Bhavachakra Tibet, early 20th Century The cycle of existence divided in circular sections with three animals at the center. It depicts the Wheel of Life held in the grip of the horrifying Lord of Death. This thangka depicts a beautifully detailed Tibetan wheel of life and astrology calendar design filled with various deities, Tibetan animals, and beautiful scenery. The Wheel of Life is a presentation of the Buddhist teaching on the suffering and impermanence of cyclic existence.The word thangka translates to "recorded message." Thangka painting is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist art form that combines deities, symbolism, and sacred geometry.Thangka painting schools in Nepal help to keep Tibetan traditions alive. This exquisite Tibetan thangka is hand painted by master artists in the Kathmandu Valley.