Tibetan Buddhist art and culture

thumb|Buddha Vairocana, the “Resplendent One”. Pigments on cloth, 14th century thumb|Thangka depicting Vajrabhairava, c. 1740 thumb|A large thangka hung on a Thangka wall|special wall at [[Gyantse in Tibet in 1938]]

1993 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

traditional Buddhist dance

thumb|A painting of the bhavachakra in Sera Monastery, [[Tibet]]

thumb|Ashtamangala: first row (left to right): parasol, pair of golden fish, conch; second row: treasure vase, lotus; Last row: infinite knot, victory banner and wheel.

thumb|Carved conches or Vamavarta shankhas, , Pala Empire|Pala period, India: The leftmost one is carved with the image of [[Lakshmi and Vishnu, and has silver additions.]] thumb|A shankha, 19th century thumb|A Shankha (conch shell) with Vishnu emblem carved

thumb|right|Heruka in Yab-Yum form. On display at [[Gangaramaya Temple museum]] thumb|Tibetan book cover depicting Prajñāpāramitā Devi and Mañjuśrī in yab yum, late 13th century

1952 novel by Heinrich Harrer

lunisolar calendar, also influenced by Han and Indian calendar

1999 film by Khyentse Norbu

national anthem

Asian culture

upright|thumb|13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1932)|alt=

2001 film by Pan Nalin

thumb|Rangoli, a popular form of Indian sand paintings, in [[Singapore.]] Sandpainting is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established cultural history in numerous social groupings around the globe, and are often temporary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healing ceremonies. This form of art is also referred to as drypainting.

art of Tibet

music and musical traditions of Tibet

Tibetan Buddhist festival

Religious symbols in Buddhism

long trumpet used in Tibetan and Mongolian buddhist ceremonies

popular arts on the subject of Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan musician

Buddhist prayer stone

Buddhist festival, public holiday in Bhutan and the Indian state of Sikkim

thumb|Torma or butter sculptures, Dhankar Gompa, [[Spiti]] thumb|Torma, Ralung Monastery, Tibet, 1993 thumb|right|Torma cakes offered on the sand mandala thumb|right|Tormas on a shrine thumb|right|Making tormas thumb|right|Monk making tormas in Sera Monastery in 1939

French spiritual teacher (1925–2011)

sculptoric technique

Agate bead worn as protective amulet in Tibet

tibetan institute, Dharamshala

7th-century Buddhist statue

to preserve Tibetan artistic heritage

type of stupa in Buddhism

thumb|Tsakli, 13-14th century thumb|Another from the same set right|thumb|Tibetan tsakli, mid 20th century Tsakli (also “tsakalis”) are Tibetan Buddhist miniature paintings, normally produced as thematic groups or sets, which are used in rituals as initiation cards, and in the training of monks. Examples of this miniature art are also known from Mongolia.