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A Living Tradition in a Transforming World The first time I saw a thangka being painted in a cramped studio in Patan Durbar Square, I was struck by something I hadn’t expected. The artist, a 34-year-old named Karma, was not working on a traditional
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The Sacred Canvas: How Hinduism Shapes Nepal’s Thangka Tradition in Contrast to Tibetan Thangka Walk into any gallery specializing in Asian art, or scroll through the feeds of digital art collectors, and you will inevitably encounter the Thangka. Th
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