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Chakrasamvara Newari Thangka, Buddhist Traditional Painting, Tibetan Style, Oiled Thangka, Old Stock

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HCS29716

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900 gm / 1.98 lbs

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131cm (52")

Width

100cm (39")

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Cotton Canvas & Natural Color

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Old Stock Thangka : Old Stock Thangka
This Chakrasamvara [newari] Thangka, Buddhist Traditional Painting, Tibetan Style, [oiled Thangka], [old Stock] is our old stock collection, Experience the captivating allure of the "Timeless Splendor" thangka painting, a rare and extraordinary masterpiece that embodies the essence of ancient artistic traditions. Created approximately 15 to 20 years ago, this painting showcases the meticulous artistry and devotion of a single artist, who skillfully prepared the canvas and brought the artwork to life.
The age of this painting adds to its rarity and significance. With its creation dating back 15 to 20 years, it carries the legacy of traditional artistic techniques. Once this collection is sold, no more paintings of its kind will be produced, making it an extraordinary find for art enthusiasts and collectors.
What sets this thangka painting apart is the genuine and thick layers of gold meticulously applied by the artist. The result is a resplendent and opulent appearance that captivates the viewer's gaze. Unlike contemporary practices where different artists handle different aspects of the painting, this unique artwork is a testament to the singular vision and talent of one artist, ensuring a harmonious and unified composition. Read More . . .

Thanka Oiled : About Oil Antique Finishing
The Chakrasamvara [newari] Thangka, Buddhist Traditional Painting, Tibetan Style, [oiled Thangka], [old Stock] Thangka, featuring an oiled antique finish, is a remarkable and captivating work of art. This thangka has undergone a finishing process that involves the application of a special varnish, resulting in an antique appearance. The intention is to create the impression that the painting has been graced by the presence of butter lamps over an extensive period. Read More . . .

Introduction to Thangka
A thangka, also known as tangka, thanka, or tanka, is a vibrant and intricate Tibetan Buddhist painting that serves as a visual representation of spiritual teachings. Crafted with meticulous detail on cotton or silk appliquÃ©, thangkas depict a wide range of subjects including Buddhist deities, sacred scenes, mandalas, and narrative stories. These sacred artworks are traditionally kept unframed and rolled up for storage, resembling ancient scrolls. To protect their delicate nature, thangkas are mounted on textile backings and often adorned with a silk cover on the front. Proper preservation in dry environments is crucial to maintain the integrity and longevity of the silk.

These sacred paintings serve as objects of contemplation, inspiration, and instruction, guiding practitioners on their spiritual path. Thangkas provide a visual gateway to the world of Tibetan Buddhism, encapsulating its rich symbolism, iconography, and spiritual concepts. With their vibrant colors, intricate patterns, and skillful craftsmanship, thangkas offer a profound visual medium for deepening one's understanding and connection to the teachings of Buddhism.

Thangkas come in various sizes, ranging from small pieces resembling Western half-length portraits to grand-scale creations spanning several meters in each dimension. While the larger thangkas are intended for temporary display during religious festivals, the majority of these artworks are designed for personal meditation or as educational aids for monastic students. The compositions of thangkas are meticulously crafted, featuring intricate details and often incorporating numerous small figures. A central deity or focal point is typically surrounded by a symmetrical arrangement of other divine beings, symbols, or narrative elements that convey profound spiritual teachings.

How is Thangka made

First, the canvas on which the painting is to be executed is laid on a wooden frame to determine the required dimensions. This canvas is an extremely finely woven cotton material, referred to in the Holy Scriptures as "Ãura Canvas".

Then the canvas is cut, hemmed and, with the use of sturdy strings, very tightly mounted in the wooden frame. Painting is carried out with the frame in an upright position, without any further rigid support or backing.

In this studio, our primary artist, who works virtually exclusively for us, applies the undercoat consisting of a mixture of chalk and glue to the canvas by hand. Other Thangka workshops have turned to mainly using industrially pre-primed canvas.

This photo shows how the canvas, after receiving its base coat followed by a second coating of bone glue, is polished and smoothed by hand with a stone to attain a perfectly smooth, featureless painting surface. Through this process the canvas becomes quite rigid, thereby providing perfect conditions to evoke very finest artistic detail and over-all superior painting quality.

Using a different Thangka, we see how, after mounting, the complete basic pattern of the respective theme is applied to the canvas.

The following picture shows the steps in creating a gold-based Thangka, such as our No PH 9, the "Holy Mount Kailash". To achieve more intensive colour, yet another prime coat, in ochre, is applied, followed by a coat of pure gold. The so-called Thangka painting gold is traditionally produced by members of the Newar people in Nepal. 24-karat gold is ground to finest powder and mixed with bone glue and water in proportions suitable for direct use in painting. Thus, the Thangka gold is not gold leaf at all! Silver can be processed and used in the same way: Mount Kailash and the surrounding peaks in our completed Thangka were not painted with white paint, rather with precious silver.

Here, the nearly completed piece has been removed from the wooden frame. Now only the very finest finishing touches remain to be added, such as compacting the gold and giving Mount Kailash its silver mantle.

K. Lama regarded his already half-finished thangka proudly

The Mount Kailash Thangka, including the black margin (which can also facilitate the fastening of a traditional brocade frame), is now complete. Only the background gold must be compacted in the places where it is later intended to exhibit a sheen.

Here we see an old ballpoint pen casing into which a specially cut agate has been fitted. The back of this semi-precious stone is slightly concave and can be used to compact gold over extensive areas of the Thangka, while the blunt point is used to lineally compact gold, thus creating a shiny effect.

In this way, through partial compaction of the gold or refraining from compaction, nearly three-dimensional effects can be achieved. The glorious sheen of gold artistically treated in this way richly rewards the beholder or meditator with a Thangka possessed of an extraordinarily aesthetic aura.

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Brief Introduction :

Chakrasamvara is a leading tantric deity who embodies great bliss [Skt. Mahasukha] realisable through a combination of wisdom and method. The idea of duality, the merging & union of two opposite forms or ideas originated thousands of years ago. Through a union of our self & the universe we become part of the Sambhogakaya realm within which great happiness which includes love, friendship, peace and joy. Chakra Sambhava is a tutelary deity seeking to guide people to great happiness.

Iconography :

Chakrasamvara is represented with a blue body, four faces and twelve arms in yib-yum union with his swisdom energy Vajravarahi {also known as Vajrayogini}. She holds a skullcap in her left hand behind his back and a vajra headed chopper in her right. The chakra referred to is the chakra of Supreme Bliss. Chakrasamvara is regarded as the most important meditational deity [Yidam] of Vajrayana Buddhism, & primary Yidam of the Kagyu tradition with its origin in the meditation of the eighty four Mahasiddhis of India.

He stands on a sun disc surrounded by a flaming aura of his own radiant wisdom. He wears a tiger skin loin cloth in the manner of an ascetic yogi and is adorned with both bone and jewelled ornaments and a garland of fifty freshly severed human heads. His forehead sports the third eye of wisdom and the expression on his face is a mixture of wrath and passion. Heruka embraces his red wisdom energy Vajravarahi who holds a curved knife in her right hand to cut off ego interferences and in her left behind Heruka's head she has a skull-cup symbolizing self regenerating blissful wisdom. Heruka's right leg stands on the back of the worldly deity wrathful Ishvara (also known as Bhairava), while his left leg tramples on the breast of Bhairava's consort Kalarati. this stance symbolizes the ability of Chakrasamvara to overcome the forces of ignorant hatred and desirous attachment respectively. In addition to the traditional vajra and bell, the skin of an elephant, a drum, dagger, curved knife and ant three pointed spear in his right hands, and the staff, skull-cup, noose and the head of a worldly deity in his left hands. The symbolism of these various attributes can be explained as follows (partial). The 4 faces stand for the 4 doors of liberation.

His twelve arms signify the purification of the twelve links of dependent arising explained in the Wheel of Life The vajra and bell symbolize the supreme unification of method and wisdom. The elephant skin illustrates the abandonment of ignorance. The hand drum enhances the blissful happiness experienced in the minds of all fully enlightened ones. The dagger and curved knife cut off the thre poisons as the hub of the Wheel of Becoming [Skt. Bhavachakra] and eliminate all extreme views, while the 3-pointed spear pierces through the delusions of the 3 realms of existence. The green orb around Chakrasaṃvara's head symbolizes the enlightened transformation of sensual desire through the union of bliss and emptiness.

Commentary :

Chakrasamvara is sometimes called Heruka. The term Heruka is also be applied to all wrathful male deities of high-end tantra yoga. In Sanskrit Chakrasamvara means 'Born or arising from the Chakra'. The chakra refers to the wheel of life. Sometimes the deity is called 'Chakrasamvara' means "Binding the Chakra or controlling the Chakras. Chakrasamvara is a heruka which means a divine father energy & the two armed form of Chakrasamvara is often called Heruka. Hi is a principal meditational deity [Skt. Istha-devata especially of the Kagyu. The Chakrasamvara sadhana is in the mother class of the Anuttara Yoga Tantra. Their embrace symbolizes the union of wisdom and skillful means. They symbolize the sameness in the distinctions of relative truth and the non-distinctions of absolute truth. Chakrasaṃvara, the Wrathful Lord of the Wheel of Supreme Bliss, is one of the major meditational deities of the mother tantras.

Mantra of Chakrasamvara

OM SHRI VAJRA HE HE RU RU KAM HUM HUM P'HAT DAKINI DZALA SHAMBARAM SVAHA

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