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Material about Tibetan art including images, reference material, and articles.

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• Art of Joan Bredin Price

  http://www.bredinprice.com/
  A gallery of paintings and prints of the Twenty One Taras paintings accompanied by corresponding verses of traditional prayers. Available as prints or new commissions.

• Art of the Headless Dakini

  http://www.libertynet.org/meditate/page4.html
  Some images of dakinis, including headless ones. Also images of thogchags. Comments on both.

• Asian Arts, New York City

  http://www.mokotoff.com/
  Museum quality Central Asian, Islamic, Nepalese and Indian material with a specialized interest in the art of Tibet.

• Asianart: Early Tibetan Mandalas: The Rossi Collection

  http://www.asianart.com/mandalas/
  Fourteen Tibetan paintings of mandalas dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with commentary, and descriptive catalog.

• Buddhist Art: Symbolism of Mandalas

  http://www.buddhanet.net/mandalas.htm
  A brief description of the general meaning of mandalas.

• Chenrezig / Avalokiteshvara

  http://dharma-haven.org/tibetan/chen-re-zig.htm
  The Tibetan Buddhist Buddha of Compassion: Chenresig (Avalokiteshvara)

• Chenrezig Tibetan Sand Mandalas

  http://www.mandala.org.nz/
  Tibetan Sand Mandala Tour 2001 and 2002 in New Zealand. Information about and images of Chenrezig Tibetan Sand Mandalas.

• Dakini Land

  http://www.dakini.demon.co.uk/
  A celebration of the female spirit as manifest in the Dakini. Some images of Dakinis with a brief discussion of the symbolism.

• Exploring the Mandala

  http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~wbt/mandala/
  Brief description of mandalas, including a computer model developed at Cornell University.

• Headless Dakinis

  http://www.headlessdakinis.com/
  Art and culture of Tibetan chod practitioners and dakinis.

• Hindu Paintings: Newsletter Archive

  http://www.hindupaintings.com/newsletter.php3
  A collection of illustrated articles about Buddhist and Hindu art. Topics include Dance of the Yogini, The Bodhisattva Ideal; Tantric Buddhist Art; and Green Tara and White Tara - Feminist Ideals in Buddhist Art.

• Mandala

  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/mandala.html
  Illustrated discussion of mandalas, their creation and their place within Buddhist Tantric practice.

• Mandala Sand Painting

  http://www.newportnet.com/archives/mandala/home.htm
  Description and images from the creation of a sand mandala.

• Manjushri-Mandala

  http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/submenus/tibetmen.html
  A sorted Archive of Tibetan Thangka Art

• Mindful Creations - The Art of Joanne Chilton

  http://www.mindfulcreations.com/
  Miksang means Good Eye in Tibetan. Fine Art Photography that works with a contemplative style called Miksang. See new exhibit titled "In Quiet Places".

• Nick Dudka: The Buddist Art of Thangka

  http://www.thangka.ru/eng.html
  A collection of thangkas including brief descriptions.

• Temple Art Studios

  http://www.tibetcolor.com/
  Creators of silk appliques thangkas and paintings, unique historic Tibetan art projects and films.

• The Mystical Arts of Tibet

  http://www.mysticalartsoftibet.org/
  Descriptions and illustrations of touring exhibits of sacred music, sacred dance, mandala sand painting, art, and photos of Tibet. Includes tour schedule and contact information.

• The Tibetan Photo Project

  http://www.tibetanphotoproject.com/
  Tibetan monks are using the camera for the first time to document and share their lives and culture in exile. Several galleries of photographs and related material.

• Tibetan Paintings by the Thangde Gatsal Studio

  http://www.tibetanpaintings.com/
  A school in Dharamsala, India that teaches the art of Tibetan thangka painting. Commissions are accepted for specific thangkas.

• Tibetan Sacred Art

  http://www.sanje.net/
  The work of Sanje Elliott, thangka painter. Paintings done in the traditional Karma Ghadri style of Tibetan Sacred Art. Gallery of thangkas and information on classes.

• Tibetan Thangka Gallery #1 (Taeger Collection)

  http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/thkas/thgk-gal.html
  Tibetan Thangka Gallery # 1 from the Taeger Collection, 20 temporary paintings by Tibetan artists

• Virtual Thangka Gallery

  http://www.fpmt-osel.org/gallery/
  Osel Shen Phen Ling copyright-free line drawings from various tibetan sources. Java applets for a prayer wheel and candle offerings.

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