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.
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All the images displayed in the Tibetan Art, Newar Tantric Art, and John Miles Art Galleries, can be individually viewed in larger-than-life formats by first clicking on the red ‘View Details’ tab that appears under each brief three- or four-line description. This brings up a larger image with the sizes and prices of Giclee prints available, along with a written description of the painting.
Featured Art
Karma Kagyu Refuge Tree
This 'Merit Field' (Tib. shog-shing) thangka was painted by Dorje Tamang in 2006, and shows the 'Primordial Buddha' Vajradhara seated at the centre of the Karma Kagyu Refuge Tree, with the main lineage holders of this tradition in the upper canopy of the tree, its principal meditational deities in the lower branches, and its main protective deities on the row of clouds beneath the tree.
Artist : Dorje Tamang
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Dudjom Tersar Refuge Tree
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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Twenty-One Taras
This rare thangka portrays the complete assembly of the twenty-one Taras according to the tradition of the early Indian Buddhist master, Suryagupta. There are three main traditions that depict the twenty-one Taras, the first being the Nagarjuna and Atisha tradition, where all of the Taras are virtually identical in appearance, except for their body colours and the colours of the vases they hold in their lowered right hands. The second is the Longchenpa tradition, where all twenty-one Taras are also similar in appearance, except for their individual attributes that rest upon their left hand-held lotuses. And the third is the Suryagupta tradition, where each Tara appears in her own unique form, as represented here.
Artist : Dorje Tamang
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Eight Medicine Buddhas
The assembly known as the 'Eight Medicine Buddhas' (Tib. sman-bla bde-gshegs brgyad) shows the principal form of Bhaisajyaguru, the 'Medicine Guru' or Medicine Buddha, surrounded by his 'Six Brothers' and Shakyamuni Buddha. All eight of these figures wear the three red monastic robes of a nirmanakaya Buddha, and sit in vajra-posture upon a moon disc and lotus, with only their specific colours and right hand gestures differentiating them.
Artist : Sunlal Ratna Tamang
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Usnisavijaya Nine-Deity Assembly
Usnisavijaya, meaning the “Victorious one (Skt. vijaya) with a Crown Protuberance (Skt. usnisa)”, is a female long-life deity who manifests as an embodiment of enlightenment from the protuberance or usnisa that crowns the Buddha’s head. Her main function is to bestow the realization of immortality by eliminating the hindrances to a long life, and purifying the defilements of body, speech and mind. She is known in Tibetan as Tsugtor Namgyalma (Tib. gtsug gtor rnam rgyal ma), and along with Amitayus and White Tara is one of the great three longevity deities who commonly appear in a trinity. Printed prayers and small clay images (Tib. tsha-tsha) of this goddess, either alone or in her trinity, are commonly enshrined inside Buddhist stupas.
Artist : Sunlal Ratna Tamang
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