Four Video Lessons with Tiffani Gyatso
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Painting the Myth of the Garuda
In Buddhism, Garudas are mythical bird-like creatures whose wingspan is said to be many miles wide and who bring hurricaine-force winds with the flap of their wings. The garudas waged a long-standing war with the nagas, the serpentine water spirits and are thus are depicted with a snake in the mouth. After the Buddha protected nagas from a Garuda attack, both nagas and garudas took refuge in him.
Garudas are common subjects of Buddhist and folk art throughout Asia and statues of Garudas abound to "protect" temples.
In Tibetan Buddhism, the Garuda is one of the Four Dignities—animals that represent the courageous characteristics of a bodhisattva. These four animals are the dragon representing power, the tiger representing confidence, the snow lion representing fearlessness, and the garuda representing wisdom.
About the Course
In this four session course we will learn how to draw and color the garuda, while getting initiated into some foundational techniques of traditional Tibetan thangka art.
This course is open to all, and no prior experience in drawing is require
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