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thangka en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཐང་ཀ (thang ka, literally “painting”).

Meanings

1. A painted or embroidered linen banner, usually depicting Buddhist themes, originating in Tibet; a prayer flag.
   • Like so many things in Nepal, thangka—Tibetan ritual paintings—are now cranked out for the tourist market, yet the best ones remain undiminished by commercialization, and even the cheapest can't hide the dense Buddhist symbolism inherent in the form. 2002, David Reed, The Rough Guide to Nepal, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 70:
   • When the talks by Lama Thubten Yeshe on Buddhist and Christian meditation were published, the text included a reproduction of a Christian icon and a Tibetan thangka. 1996, Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, editors, Nicholas of Cusa on Christ and the Church, BRILL, →ISBN, page 265:

Forms

Translations (7)

fi thangka (painted or embroidered linen banner) · new पौभा (painted or embroidered linen banner) · bo ཐང་ཀ (painted or embroidered linen banner) · ne थान्का (painted or embroidered linen banner) · pl thangka (painted or embroidered linen banner) · cmn 唐卡 (painted or embroidered linen banner) · vi thangka (painted or embroidered linen banner)