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David Lebrun

TANKA: An Animated Vision of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

  • Documentary
RELEASE

1976-01-01

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

9 min

Description

"Tanka" means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Tanka is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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