thangka


thangka

thang·ka

or tan·ka T0036900 (täng′kə)n. A Tibetan religious painting on fabric, usually portraying the Buddha or lamas in stereotyped aspects.
[Tibetan thaṅka, something rolled up.]

thangka

(ˈθæŋkə) n (Buddhism) (in Tibetan Buddhism) a religious painting on a scroll[from Tibetan]