What is Singing bowl ?Singing Bowls also known as meditation chakra bowls, healing singing bowls or himalayan singing bowls had been widely used since from the ancinet times in Nepal and Tibet mostly by the...
What is Yamantaka ?Yamantaka is the conqueror og the Death (Yama). He is the ferocious emanation on Manjushree. Under this form he conquered the demon king of Death (Yama). The simplest form of Yamantaka has...
Green Tara Tara represents the entire enlightened activities of all Buddhas and hence she is called the mother of the Buddhas of three times. It is said in a sutra that Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva saved and...
What is Newar Jewelry?Newar Jewelry is the Ornaments crafted from the groups of ethnic Newar ( Newah) folks belogning Tamrakar, Shakya, Ghurju and Bhajracharya in Kathmandu Valley Nepal.Nepal has some of the...
Description of making Nepalese statues!!Lost Wax Method. This process of statue making is one of the oldest finest methods of statue crafting ever known to the mankind. This method of statue making was...
ABOUT NEWAR THANGKA ARTIST Newar Thangka Paintings for both Hindu and Buddhist deities in different sizes and price range painted by the experienced artists of Newar community of Kathmandu valley, noted...
what is Kapala ?KAPALA: The skull cup, known as kapala in Sanskrit, is fashioned from the oval upper section of a human cranium. It serves as a libation vessel for a vast number of Vajrayana deities, mostly...
What is Lokta Paper ?Lokta paper is Nepali handmade paper crafted in the traditional way from the bark of Daphne Cannabina, commonly known as LOKTA among Nepalese, an under-storey shrub which grows in the...
Wrathful deities and their direction The deities are classifiied as peaceful and wrathful according to the Vajrayana Buddhism. The wrathul deities helps to remove or eliminate all sorts of obstacles for the...
What does Buddha means?Buddha literally means ''awakened'' or ''that which has become aware' Buddha is the title not a name. Buddha comes from the Sanskrit budh i,e ''to awaken'', ''to know'', or ''to become...