Framed thangkas of the bodhisattvas, teachers and protectors who stand around the Buddhas: wisdom with a sword in its hand, a great Tibetan teacher, a giver of plenty and a guardian in flames. Each is our own drawing on the traditional proportions, finished by hand at a temple.
Manjushri Thangka
Lion's Roar Manjushri Thangka
Akashagarbha Thangka
Je Tsongkhapa Thangka
Six-Armed Mahakala Thangka
He raises a flaming sword that cuts through ignorance and keeps the book of the Perfection of Wisdom at his shoulder. We draw him three ways: golden on a night-blue ground, as Lion's Roar Manjushri seated on a snow lion, and as White Manjushri on red. Read Manjushri: His Sword, His Book and His Mountain.
Blue, holding an upright sword, one of the Eight Great Bodhisattvas. Choose him under a rainbow among peonies or in black and gold. Read Akashagarbha Bodhisattva.
The teacher in the yellow pointed hat. Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) was the scholar whose teachings became the basis of the Gelug school, and he holds the same sword and book as Manjushri on two lotuses. See the Je Tsongkhapa thangka and how to read his thangka.
Stout, golden, a citron in one hand and a mongoose in the other. In Tibetan tradition he is a deity of abundance and generosity. Our Yellow Jambhala thangka is drawn in black and gold. Why the mongoose: Yellow Jambhala.
Dark blue, three-eyed, six arms spread in a blaze of fire: a protector of the teaching, understood as a wrathful form of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. See the Six-Armed Mahakala thangka and what the six arms hold.
We print our own drawings on heavy card; they are not hand-painted. Elderly lay Buddhists at a temple then set the glass crystals and trace the gold outlines by hand, about two days for each, and part of every order goes back to that temple. Framed in silk brocade at 55 × 71 cm, shipped free by air, tracked, duties paid. More on the main Thangka page.
