Portable Tibetan Devotional Hand-Book.

Portable Tibetan Devotional Hand-Book With Four Hand Painted Icons

Portable Tibetan Devotional Hand-Book.

Item Number: 52019

Portable Tibetan Devotional Hand-book with four hand-painted icons affixed to front pastedown. Late 19th century or earlier. Goat-skin over boards, 44pp, 6 lines ruled, text in brown ink. Brittle at the edges.

Tibetan thangkas, or devotional hand-painted objects, were created to both serve as a record of and guide for the contemplative experience of their owners through both iconographic and textual references.

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