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A contemporary Nepali thangka painting

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Thangka Painting Workshop

Learn the sacred geometry of Buddhist art and paint your own thangka fragment beside Boudha's stupa.

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WorkshopKathmandu

Summary

Thangka painting schools around Boudha offer short introductory sessions where an artist walks you through the grid-based proportions of Buddhist iconography and lets you fill in a small canvas with mineral pigments. Longer courses exist for the serious; even the taster gives you a feel for why a single thangka can take months.

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Skip if sitting still for two hours sounds like work rather than a holiday.

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