Tibetan art
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tibetan-art-166-9867899
title:
Tibetan art
text:
The vast majority of surviving Tibetan art created before the mid-20th century is religious, with the main forms being thangka, paintings on cloth, mostly in a technique described as gouache or distemper, Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings, and small statues in bronze, or large ones in clay, stucco or wood. They were commissioned by religious establishments or by pious individuals for use within the practice of Tibetan Buddhism and were manufactured in large workshops by monks and lay artists, who
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_art
date created:
2004-03-15T23:35:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T02:37:34Z
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13
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