Dhankar Gompa
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Dhankar Gompa is a village and also a Gompa, a Buddhist temple in the district of Lahaul and Spiti in India. It is situated at an elevation of 3,894 metres in the Spiti Valley above Dhankar Village, b
Dhankar Gompa
Dhankar Gompa Gate
Prayer flags in Dhankar
View down Spiti Valley from roof of Dhankar Gompa
Thangka
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A thangka painting is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk appliqué, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala. Thangkas are traditionally kept unframed and rolled up when not on di
Buddha Vairocana, the “Resplendent One”. Pigments on cloth, 14th century
Thangka depicting Vajrabhairava, c. 1740
A large thangka hung on a special wall at Gyantse in Tibet in 1938
Thanka in making