Painting Style: Indian Style Painting (In Tibet)
Indian Style Painting Main Page Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- Chronology:
--- 11th Century
--- 12th Century
--- 13th Century
- Subjects:
--- Early Teachers
--- Early Deities
--- Early Footprints
--- Gold on Red Teachers
--- Gold on Red Mixed Subjects
--- Early Mandalas
- Masterworks
- Confusions
- Others...
Book Review Videos:
- Painted Images of Enlightenment: Early Tibetan Thankas, 1050-1450.
- Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet.
- Dating Tibetan Art.
- Taklung Painting: A Study in Chronology.
Additional Topics:
- Riwoche Paintings (16th-20th centuries)
- Terminology & Classification of Style Names
- Sakya Subject (Taglung Paintings): #101331
- Karma Kagyu Subject (Taglung Paintings): #57024, #68871, #68872
- Drigung Subject (Taglung Paintings)
- Drugpa Subject (Taglung Paintings)
- Others...
Indian style painting is how Tibetans referred to the Buddhist paintings of the 11th through 13th centuries. The painting of that time had a distinctive look regardless of the religious tradition and subject of the painting. The principal subjects of the paintings are teachers, deities and mandalas.
The period of the Taglung school following the Indian style of painting began in approximately 1170 around the time of the passing of Pagmodrubpa Dorje Gyalpo (1110-1170 [p127]). The painting tradition continued until the early 1300s.
Jeff Watt [updated 5-2017, 6-2018, 1-2019]
Bibliography:
Taklung Painting: A Study in Chronology. Jane Casey. Serindia Publications, 2023. (See HAR on Patreon). (Book Review Video).
Painted Images of Enlightenment: Early Tibetan Thankas, 1050-1450. Steven Kossak. Marg Publications, 2010. (Book Review Video).
Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet by Steven M. Kossak and Jane Casey Singer
With an essay by Robert Bruce-Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998. (Book Review Video).
Dating Tibetan Art. Ingrid Keide-Damani (ed.). Dr. Ludwig Reichart Verlag Wiesbaden, 2003. (Book Review).
(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).
