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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
  Thangka
A "Thangka," also known as "Tangka", "Thanka" or "Tanka". In Tibetan the word thang means flat, and thus the Thangka is a kind of painting done on flat surface but which can be rolled up when not required for display, sometimes called a scroll-painting.

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'The Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya', Tibetan thangka

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