50×50cm Medicine Buddha Iconography—Ritual as Framework, Newari Style Thangka Painting spiritual altar decor Zaki Lhamo is a unique

Zaki Lhamo is a unique female protector deity

expertly made from purple copper and painted with mineral pigments

but fortune earned through diligence and virtue

and artisanal technique reflects the Tibetan Buddhist principle of “using art as a vehicle for the Dharma

Materials: Traditional thangka canvas

50×50cm Medicine Buddha Iconography—Ritual as Framework, Newari Style Thangka Painting spiritual altar decor Zaki Lhamo is a uniqueWhen a black gold thangka, colored with lapis lazuli blue and gilded with gold leaf, unfolds before you, you are looking not just at the brushstrokes of a Nepalese Newari painter, but at a millennium of Tibetan Buddhist tradition of "visualizing dharma meaning." This 5050cm hand painted thangka is a signature work of Nepals Newar ethnic group: the Medicine Buddha Six Syllable Mantra Black Gold Thangka. Framed by mineral pigments and animated by