Smanla Tsering

Smanla Tsering is a skilled practitioner of Thangka painting, a profound Buddhist art form originating from the Bhutia tribes that traces its roots back to the lifetime of Lord Buddha. He has spent his entire life keeping this art form alive. Traditionally painted on canvas and stitched with narrow yellow silk and larger blue silk borders, Thangka paintings serve as pictorial illustrations of philosophical, mystical ideas, and sacred objects where every image and part is deeply symbolic, capturing the turbulence and thoughts of human existence. These sacred artworks attain their true value and divine essence only after a high consecration performed by monks or lamas.