Welcome to Tibetan Art
Welcome to tibetanart.com - the website of the British artist and author Robert Beer, who has studied and practiced Tibetan Art for the past forty years and is now recognized as one of the foremost scholars in this field. Over the past fifteen years he has been working closely with the finest Newar artists and Tibetan thangka painters of the Kathmandu Valley to create the most comprehensive collection of contemporary Newar Buddhist and Hindu tantric art.
The main purpose of this site is to reveal the sublime skills of these individual artists by making many of their original paintings available in the form of fine-art Giclee Prints. All of these compositions are completely accurate in their iconographic detail and rendition, and each Giclee Print comes with a detailed description written by Robert Beer, who is working in association with Wisdom Books to produce these archival prints.
Also exhibited on this website are the mesmerizing and spiritually vibrant paintings of John Miles. So essentially it is the artists themselves who are represented here, for they are truly some of the most visionary, innovative and divinely inspired painters of our time.
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Featured Art
Amitabha in Sukhavati
This elaborate Sino-Tibetan style thangka depicts Amitabha, the Buddha of ‘Boundless Light’, in his paradise of Sukhavati (Tib. Dewa-chen), the ‘Realm of Great Bliss’. Amitabha Buddha is the ‘Lord of the Padma or Lotus Family’, who presides over the western direction where the Pure Land of Sukhavati is located. He represents the purified aggregate of perception, and the transmutation of passion into discriminating awareness. His colour is red, his symbol is a lotus, and he is associated with the element of fire, the summer season, the west, and evening twilight.
Artist : Sunlal Ratna Tamang
Price From : £115.00
B/W Four-armed Avalokiteshvara
In this beautiful black and white painting by Nabin Dhakwa, Lokeshvara is shown in his four-armed form, or ‘six-syllable’ (sadaksari) aspect, which relates to his famous six-syllable mantra, OM MA-NI PA-DME-HUM.
Artist : Nabin Dhakwa
Price From : £60.00
The Medicine Buddha
The Medicine Buddha, or Medicine Guru (Skt. Bhaisajyaguru; Tib. sMan-gyi bla) is the form in which Shakyamuni manifested in order to reveal the Medical Tantras. The meditation practice of this deity is believed to cure the afflictions of body, speech and mind. He is also known as the ‘King of Vaidurya Light’, referring to his radiant and deep blue form, which is like sapphire or blue-beryl (vaidurya). He sits in vajra-posture upon a white moon disc and a multicoloured lotus, wearing the three red robes of a Buddhist monk. His right hand is extended downwards in the boon-granting gesture of supreme generosity, as he holds a triple-fruited branch of a myrobalan tree between his thumb and index finger. His left hand rests upon his lap in the gesture of meditation and supports a blue alms-bowl of vaidurya gemstone, which contains medicinal nectar and another myrobalan fruit. In both the Tibetan and Indian Ayurvedic medical traditions the dried and plum-like fruit of the myrobalan (Skt. arura) is known as the ‘King of Medicines’. In the two lower corners are offerings of coloured jewels.
Artist : Robert Beer
Price : £5.95