Thangka

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Tibetan term
ཐང་ཀ་
transcription: Thangka

Thangka is a Tibetan term for a painting or image, often bordered in brocade and painted on silk, which usually depicts a yidam or visualization and is related especially to visualization practice forms of meditation, or are used as a teaching aid or visual history.

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Further reading

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Trungpa, Chögyam (1976) The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

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