Wood Painting Art – Amitayus (Tsepakmay)

Painted using the traditional Kyumbur technique, characterized by raised relief decorative line work; this panel depicts Amitayus (Tsepakmay), the deity of boundless life. Painting in Tibet was both a sacred art used in the creation of thangkas and also a decorative art to ornament furniture and murals in the temples. Rendered in relief painted on wood, Buddha Amitayus, the deity of boundless life, this wall hanging manages to bring sacred Tibetan iconography from the traditional canvas scroll onto wood, blending precise iconographic proportions of a thangka with relief painting.