Talk:Thangka paintings

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I would love to understand Thangka motifs and what they really mean. Very often, one sees circular motifs running through a painting -- do they represent the Circle of Life?

[edit] How did it end up being used to document Tibetan Medicine?

Hi, a few months ago I went to a trade fair for alternative healing therapies and one of the stall's had a bunch of people from the Tibetan institute of medicine .. they had a huge selection of really beautiful old books that to me looked like thangkas but were basically the human anatomy and were obviously about healing etc etc.. so now my question is were those thangkas as well? or are thangkas only meant to represent things about the buddha and his life. Madhavi