http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog Travel & Documentary Photography Musings Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:31:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/ http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:10:05 +0000 mohitg http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/?p=46 Thangkas were originally intended to serve as a record of, and guide for contemplative experience. They were intended to convey iconographic information in a pictorial manner. A text of the same meditation would supply similar details in written descriptive form. Here's a multimedia story on the making of these scrolls...]]> http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/feed/ 2