Smanla Tsering

Smanla Tsering is a Ladakh-based practitioner of Thangka painting, the Tibetan Buddhist scroll-painting tradition. Thangkas are painted on cotton canvas and mounted in silk borders, traditionally yellow and blue, and serve as visual guides to Buddhist teaching, where every figure, colour and object carries meaning. A Thangka is traditionally consecrated by monks or lamas before it is hung for devotion. Each piece in this collection is hand-painted by Smanla Tsering.