Tibetan Tsakli Garuda Tantric Dance

From the most mysterious and mystical place in the world, own a piece of history! The ultimate conversation piece for your home or office. Traditional stone ground pigments from minerals, real gold & silver on canvas. Handmade original Lama painted sacred thangka meditation painting. To see the image is to receive blessings. Old Tibet may be gone, but the dreams of the heart live on. The tsakli which are normally painted in sets which can comprise from 6 to almost 100 small paintings of similar subjects are used as offerings in temples or in rituals. For example, before a temple building is started, the area can be marked with tsakli representing protective deities. In this case they are being mounted on small wooden sticks. Similarly tsakli can be used by a buddhist lama to remove evil influences from a sick person, from a tree which does not bear fruit or a stack of grain which is going to be thrashed. A tsakli can also be placed in a portable shrine or box (Tibetan "gau") and carried as a device giving protection to the traveller or pilgrim who carries this box around the neck or on a shoulder strap.