Contemporary & Traditional Tibetan Calligraphy
Title:
The Four Noble Truths
Japanese mineral paint on Bhutanese Tsasho bark fiber paper, 58x80 cm, 2009
The Four Noble Truths is considered one of the most fundamental of the Buddha’s teaching. Honored here as a calligraphy in a high form of Uchen script.
High Uchen is a specialized honorific script style originating in the 15th-16th century in central Tibet. This script form was mostly used for illuminated title pages of Tibetan manuscripts.
The Four main topics of the Noble Truths are highlighted in an earth red mineral paint:
1. Suffering
2. Origin
3. Cessation
4. way/path
