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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.
Green Arya Tara sits gracefully upon her moon disc, lotus seat and enlightenment throne in her traditional posture of royal ease. She has the youthful body of a sixteen-year-old, a sweetly smiling face, and all of her silk garments and jewel ornaments are meticulously painted. The minute form of Amoghasiddhi Buddha, barely larger than the pupil of her eye, crowns the top of her tiara's central jewel. The serpent-devouring face of kirtimukha is embellished on her neck choker, and a tiny square pendant bearing her own minute form hangs from a filigree chain between her breasts. Each decorative element of her jewellery is individually shaded, with a skilful use of background shadows creating a vivid impression of luminosity upon her pearls and finely embossed metal ornaments.
Artist : Devendra Man Sinkhwal
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In this beautiful black and white painting by Shuka Raj Tamang, Avalokiteshvara is shown in his four-armed form, or 'Six-syllable' (Skt. sadaksari) aspect, which relates to his famous six-syllable mantra: OM MA-NI PA-DME-HUM. Lokeshvara sits gracefully in vajra-posture upon a white moon disc, an open lotus, and a jeweled throne. As the embodiment of great compassion he is radiant and white like an autumnal moon, and adorned with the five divine silks, the eight jewel ornaments, and a deerskin that is traditionally draped over his left shoulder.
Artist : Shuka Raj
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Vidyadhari, the 'Knowledge Holder', manifests as one of the four principal aspects of Vajrayogini in the Newar Buddhist tradition, where she is commonly known as Bidjeshwori Devi, or Akash-yogini, the 'Sky (Skt. akasha) or Space-going' aspect of the goddess Vajrayogini. The Bijeshwori temple in Kathmandu is situated above the western bank of the Vishnumati River on the road to Swayambhu, and its Newar name is derived from Vidhyeshvari, meaning the 'Wisdom Goddess'. The presiding goddess of this temple is specifically associated with the Indian Mahasiddha Maitripa, who practiced and attained the realization of this flying aspect of Vajrayogini at this site, so she is also known as Maitri-dakini, or Maitri-khechari.
Artist : Shuka Raj
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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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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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