- A
thongdrel (མཐོང་གྲོལ།) or
throngdrel is a
large appliqué (གོས་དྲུབ།)
religious image normally only
unveiled during tsechus(ཚེ་བཅུ།), the main religious...
- in
between the plays. Most
tshechus also
feature the
unfurling of a
thongdrel - a
large appliqué
thangka typically depicting a
seated Padmasambhava...
-
relics and
statues were burnt,
except for the
Thongdrel (20x20 metre-wide).
Paying homage to the
Thongdrel it is
believed that the
faithful can
attain Nirvana...
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thongdrel, is
unfurled in the
courtyard of the
dzong for
several hours. The mere
sight of it is
believed to
bring spiritual liberation. The
thongdrel...
-
prime minister,
government officials, and
thousands of
people in Samtse.
Thongdrels of Guru
Rinpoche and
Zhabdrung were
unfurled for the ceremony, to sanctify...
-
Kesang Choeden Wangchuck ( Bhutan: ཨ་ཞེ་སྐལ་བཟང་ཆོས་སྒྲོན།)
funded a
thongdrel(མཐོང་གྲོལ) for the
monastery in 2015,
which took one year to complete...
- and
perhaps twenty or more high. In
Bhutan at
least these are
called thongdrels.
There are also
larger than
average thankas that were
designed for altars...
- beam
attached to one end, like a
gigantic hanging scroll, or the huge
thongdrel thankas of
Tibetan Buddhism (usually in silk appliqué). As a
result of...
- The
school has
produced several notable thangka embroideries,
notably Thongdrel (large
thangkas hanging from the roof tops of
monasteries and dzongs)...
-
stored in a box
behind the
altar in a
temple hall. They
compare with the
thongdrels of
Bhutanese and
Tibetan art.
These are made from
applique silk, and in...
