Thangka is a religious scroll painting popular in Tibetan areas. There are many kinds, mainly divided into two categories: "National Tang Dynasty" and "Stop Tang Dynasty". Ethnic Tang costumes include embroidery, pile embroidery, brocade, silk tangka, etc. "Stop the Tang Dynasty" mainly refers to Thangka painted on cloth or silk. There is also a kind of thangka that is printed in monochrome and then filled with color, but it has not been passed down much. Thangka is mainly used for hanging in various monasteries and private houses to provide worship and meditation for Buddhists and pilgrims. For thousands of years, with the changes of history and the development of religion, Thangka is famous for its huge content system and unique national form.

Tubo Dynasty (7th-9th century)

The earliest historical data of the word "Thangka" is the Tibetan classic "Baxie" written around12nd century, in which the architecture of Sanye Temple is described as follows: "All statues are consistent with the theory of dense formation. There are 79 statues, 14 portraits inherited by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1,002 pillars, 36 gates, 42 small doors, six ladders, eight bells, and three large satin thangkas ... "The" three large satin thangkas "mentioned in the book provide us with the written basis for the appearance of" thangkas ".

Regime period (10 ~ 65438+early 3rd century)

At the end of the Tubo Dynasty, in 838 AD, the 42nd Zaplanda Ma Kaizhan extermination movement almost completely destroyed Buddhist culture. The Tubo dynasty completely collapsed, and Tibet fell into a fragmented partition period of more than 400 years. According to the history of Buddhism in Butun, "70 years after the disappearance of Langdama Buddhism, Buddhism revived", which is called the "post-prosperity period" of Tibetan Buddhism. Since the post-flood period in Tibet, the independent portrait Thangka has become popular. Along the way, although the expression techniques are different, it has never given up the portrayal of characters and the expression of inner world.

Sakya period (13 ~14th century)

During this period, Thangka made bold breakthroughs and innovations in artistic features, resulting in Matang with red background and gold thread, social hall with gold and silver thread, especially Donna with black background and gold thread. In terms of varieties, in addition to painting Thangka, there are Thangka with embroidery, silk reeling, brocade and pearl embroidery. At the same time, the earliest painting school in the history of Tibetan painting-Wuqi Gamba Painting School was born.

Pam Juba period (15 ~16th century)

The most important performance of this period is the establishment of various painting schools, the most important of which are Miantang, Qinze and Gachi. Geographically, it spread all over Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai and other Tibetan-inhabited areas, and also affected Mongolia, the Central Plains and other places, with a time span of more than 600 years and continued to this day.

Gandanpozhang period (17 ~19th century)

During this period, the Fifth Dalai Lama presided over the reconstruction and expansion of the Potala Palace. In this vast project, 66 painters and 300 ordinary painters from all Tibetan areas were convened, which took more than ten years to complete. Not only left countless classic pictures on the wall of Potala Palace, but also tens of thousands of Thangka paintings spread all over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Thangka art reached unprecedented prosperity.

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