Unfurling the Large Applique Thangka in Bodhgaya on New Year’s Eve (via Kagyu Office)
This morning, in a two-hour ceremony at the Monlam Pavilion, a magnificent appliqué thangka of Buddha Shakyamuni, flanked by the bodhisattvas Maitreya andManjusri, was unfurled and consecrated. It had taken six months, from June to December 2011, to make the thangka, measuring 20 feet by 30 feet.
via Current Activities of the Karmapa.
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