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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.
The Website has now been upgraded to make it compatible with Mobile Phone and Tablet users. We have also now made the website customer-secure by installing an SSL Certificate (padlock image) to secure credit card transactions, data transfer, and login details. At present I am also in the process of adding options for certain Large Giclee Prints on fine-art Canvas in A1 sizes, printed on 36 inch wide (914 mm), which will be available from 28th May 2019. Essentially these are for customers who have the ability or resource to mount their canvas print in brocade as a thangka, or to have it professionally mounted on a rectangular wooden-stretcher frame, although I myself am not able to advise on, or facilitate, either of these mounting options.
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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Dominating the centre of this composition are the two principal female and male protector deities of the Karma Kagyu Tradition, who appear together as 'Mahakali and Mahakala in Face to Face Union' (Tib. ma mgon zhal sbyor), with Dorje Bernagchen (rdo rje ber nag can), the 'Black-cloaked Vajra', seated upon the lap of Rangjung Gyalmo in their unusual 'mother-father' (yum-yab) posture of reversed sexual union. Palden Rangjung Gyalmo (dpal ldan rang byung rgyal mo), the 'Glorious Self-created or Spontaneously-arisen Queen' (Skt. Sri Swayambhu Rajni Devi), is one of the main manifestations of the 'Glorious Goddess' Shri Devi or Palden Lhamo, whose practice in this unique yum-yab aspect was first instigated and transmitted by the second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi (1203-1283).
Artist : Chewang Dorje
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