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Beyond the Sacred Scroll: How Nepal's Thangka Art is Rewriting Its Own Legacy For centuries, the thangka—a portable, painted scroll on cotton or silk—has served as a sacred roadmap to enlightenment. More than mere art, it is a geometric meditation,
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