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Welcome to tibetanart.com - the website of the British artist and author Robert Beer, who first began to study and practice Tibetan Art in 1970. Showcased in galleries are masterpieces of Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu Tantric art painted by the finest contemporary thangka painters and Newar artists of the Kathmandu Valley.
The main purpose of this site is to reveal the incredible skills of these artists by making their original works available as fine-art Giclee Prints, which are all meticulously accurate in their iconography, colour fidelity and detail. Each painting has a precise description written by Robert Beer, who is working with a master printer to individually produce these archival prints. Also exhibited are the exquisite visionary paintings and mandalas of John F B Miles, along with other deity prints and postcards. Essentially the artists themselves are represented here as some of the most spiritual and divinely inspired painters of our time.
I have just added a bargain set of sixty-seven different postcards to this website, consisting of sixty of the 6 x 4 inch postcards and seven of the large format postcards. These are already proving to be popular, and are priced at GBP £26.50 (approx. US $33.40) plus postage. Throughout the Coronavirus lockdown a substantial number of orders have been sent out and have safely reached their destinations, although this has necessitated tracking on more expensive orders. Postal delays are still inevitable, especially from the UK to France and Italy, although most orders to the USA seem to reach their destinations quite swiftly, as long as they are tracked.
This thangka depicts the assembly of the forty-two 'peaceful' (zhi) and fifty-eight 'wrathful' (khro) deities that constitute the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Zhitro (Tib. zhi-khro) or Bardo Mandala. These deities are precisely described in the well-known text of the Bardo Thodol or 'Tibetan Book of the Dead', as they sequentially arise from the heart, throat and crown chakras during the forty-nine day period of the 'intermediate state' (bardo) that is said to occur between death and rebirth.
Artist : Dorje Tamang
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This thangka, painted by Chewang Dorje in 2003, depicts the Nyingma Refuge Tree or Merit Field assembly that is visualized in the 'Preliminary Practices' (ngondro) of the Dudjom Tersar or 'New Treasures (tersar) of Dudjom' tradition, which were revealed relatively recently by Dudjom Lingpa and his successor Dudjom Rinpoche. Padmasambhava is said to have composed this concise practice, along with other related practices in the early ninth century, before concealing them as hidden treasures (terma) that would be revealed in a more degenerate time when people had less time to practice the Dharma.
Artist : Chewang Dorje
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An identical unbrocaded version of this rare and exceptional thangka by Sunlal is available for sale. Priced at GBP £3,650.00. Amitabha (Tib. Od dpag-med), the Buddha of 'Boundless Light', is the 'Lord of the Padma or 'Lotus Family' who presides over the western direction where his paradise of Sukhavati is located. Amitabha Buddha is red in colour, his seed syllable is HRIH, and he represents the aggregate of perception or discrimination, and the transmutation of attachment into the wisdom of discernment or discriminating awareness.
Artist : Sunlal Ratna Tamang
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This gold-on-black thangka depicts an assembly of twelve of the main yidam and important protector deities of the Tibetan Nyingma tradition. The iconographical designs for many of these figures are based on the drawings of an accomplished Sherpa artist and yogin-practitioner named Gomchen Oleshey (1924-83), who lived in semi-retreat in the Solu Khumbu district of northeast Nepal. Oleshey made these drawings in the late 1970's at the behest of H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-87. The deities shown are: Guru Rinpoche and Mandarava; Yeshe Tsogyal; Dorje Drolo; Vajrakila; Four-armed Mahakala; Maning Mahakala; Legden Mahakala; Shanpa Marnag; Rahula, Ekajati and Dorje Legpa.
Artist : Chewang Dorje
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The dynamic figure of Troma Nagmo (Tib. khros ma nag mo), the 'Wrathful Black Mother' (Skt. Krishna Kali, Krishna Krodhini), dominates the centre of this gold-on-black composition. She is extremely fierce, youthful and nubile like a sixteen-year-old, and black in colour like the darkness at the end of time. With her right leg drawn up and her left leg bent in 'bow-and-arrow' posture, she dances upon the golden sun-disc of her lotus seat, with her left foot pressing down upon the breasts of a naked female demon that has been thrown down onto its back. This fierce demon reveals her sharp teeth and vagina, and her breasts are the 'seat of desire', thus her corpse represents the concept of the self-cherishing attitude that is sacrificed through the practice of the chod ritual.
Artist : Chewang Dorje
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NOTE: The original unbrocaded thangka of this unique composition by Sunlal is for sale, Priced at GBP £2,950.00. The dynamic figure of Troma Nagmo (Tib. khros ma nag mo), the 'Wrathful Black One' (Skt. Krishna Kali, Krishna Krodhini), dominates the centre of this composition. She is an extremely fierce form of Vajrayogini, youthful and lusty like a sixteen-year-old, and black in colour like the darkness at the end of time. With her right leg drawn up and her left leg bent in 'bow-and-arrow' posture, she dances upon the golden sun and white moon disc of her lotus throne, with her left foot pressing on the breasts and heart of a naked human corpse.
Artist : Sunlal Ratna Tamang
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