Exhibition named "Precious Works of High Saint Zanabazar" is open to the public until September 27th at Choijin Lama Temple Museum.
This exhibition is dedicated to the 380th birth anniversary of High Saint Zanabazar - Mongolia’s first Buddhist leader and it is showing 17 artistic works of him including paintings, carvings and sculptures.
Moreover, commentary album of his works with painting is available in Mongolian, Tibetan, Sanskrit and English.
Zanabazar has been called the "Michelangelo of Asia" for bringing to the region a renaissance in matters related to spirituality (including theology), language, art, medicine, and astronomy. He composed sacred music and mastered the sacred arts of bronze casting and painting. He created a new design for monastic robes, and he invented the Soyombo alphabet in 1686- based on the Ranjana alphabet, which served as the alphabet for Buddhism in Mongolia. He also created the Quadratic Script- based on the Tibetan and Phags-pa script.
Zanabazar personally created thangkas and bronze statues of Buddha. His personal works are mostly kept in museums. He also founded a school of Buddhist art. The talented monks of his school created many figures of Buddha continuing well into the 19th and 20th centuries.
Photo source: www.buddha.mn
Exhibition named "Precious Works of High Saint Zanabazar" is open to the public until September 27th at Choijin Lama Temple Museum.
This exhibition is dedicated to the 380th birth anniversary of High Saint Zanabazar - Mongolia’s first Buddhist leader and it is showing 17 artistic works of him including paintings, carvings and sculptures.
Moreover, commentary album of his works with painting is available in Mongolian, Tibetan, Sanskrit and English.
Zanabazar has been called the "Michelangelo of Asia" for bringing to the region a renaissance in matters related to spirituality (including theology), language, art, medicine, and astronomy. He composed sacred music and mastered the sacred arts of bronze casting and painting. He created a new design for monastic robes, and he invented the Soyombo alphabet in 1686- based on the Ranjana alphabet, which served as the alphabet for Buddhism in Mongolia. He also created the Quadratic Script- based on the Tibetan and Phags-pa script.
Zanabazar personally created thangkas and bronze statues of Buddha. His personal works are mostly kept in museums. He also founded a school of Buddhist art. The talented monks of his school created many figures of Buddha continuing well into the 19th and 20th centuries.
Photo source: www.buddha.mn