Tibetan Medical Paintings

the art of healing

 

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All the great religions of the world have sought to generate spiritual vibrations through devotional sounds, ritual movements and paintings or sculpture of saints and sacred shapes.

Sacred chanting and meditation on devotional paintings has a special function in Tibetan Buddhism.  The Buddhist religions stemmed from the spiritual realization of the Price Siddhartha Gautama 500 B.C whose compassion for the ignorance and suffering of multitudes inspired a teaching which is also valid in the context of other religions.

Tibetan Thankas are intensely complex and detailed paintings which evoke emotions of devotion through intricate symbols shapes and colours, because of their sacred nature these paintings involve special traditional ritual in the preparation of the amterials, the use of certain colours, especially the gold of sacred figures and the act of painting itself, spread over many months.  Every minute detail of these paintings is part of a realization of the cosmos itself and its spiritual significance for living things, a visual language of the soul which vibrates in silent music.

Some of these paintings are also created for medical purposes in healing sickness as well as harmonizing spiritual perception.  This astonishing series of 79 Medical or Healing Paintings relates to the concept of the Buddha as the Sacred Physician, the embodiment of compassion for all life.

romio shrestha the artist

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Writing by Romio