Tibetan Artists Escaped Mao now Face Maoist Terror

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Tibetan Traditional Art Threatened

 

Many of the traditional Tibetan artists fled to Nepal for safety after

the 1950's invasion of Tibet by China. Now Maoist rebels threaten the

refugees in Nepal and many are opting to relocate.

 

(PRWEB) January 8, 2006 -- For the last forty years most traditional

Tibetan art has come from Nepal. This will soon change due to

increasing pressure on the refugee Tibetan community in Nepal.

 

The rising tensions caused by Maoist rebels in Nepal have caused the

tourist trade to almost completely dry up in Nepal. Most traditional

tibetan art and trained artist are not able to sell their art. The art

has been carefully preserved in scrolls called thangkas. Thangkas are

usually painted on a 15" by 20" canvas with very bright colors and

measured specifically to be recreated the same way each time they are

painted. The artist themselves are usually Buddhist monks of one of

the three schools of Buddhism originally from Tibet. The three are the

yellow hat, the red hat and the black hat. The Dalai Lama is a yellow

hat but is the spititual leader of all Tibetan buddhist.

 

More than ten thousand buddhist have applied for political asylum in

the US. Many will move to northern India where tibetan monasteries are

already present. One good thing may come of this migration and that

may be a new flourishing of very old art that will come with these

skilled artist.

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