"Painting thangka is time-consuming and requires sincerity and patience," he says. "It takes an artist weeks, or even months, to finish a painting." The pieces he brought to New York took an ...

34.29 x 24.13 in. (87.1 x 61.3 cm.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

His parents, Norbu Wangdu and Dolma Tsering, fled Tibet in the 1960s after China’s occupation in the late 1950s. Born in 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rigdol came to the United States in the late 1990s to ...

The word “thangka” literally means “rolled up ... Others used synthetic paint instead of natural paint, changing the cultural meaning. The problem is that the only people who truly ...

Nearly 1,000 thangka paintings have been cataloged, appraised, and scanned in high definition in the Potala Palace in Lhasa, ...