Amazon.com description: Product Description: Some 2,500 years ago, Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment while meditating beneath a fig tree in Bodhgaya, India, and became the Buddha, or “awakened one.” The Buddha’s teachings about the path to attaining wisdom and compassion spread within his homeland and then to many other Asian countries. Buddhist devotional art—sculptures and paintings used as visual aids for various liturgies and meditative practices—was created wherever the religion was adopted. The twelve images reproduced in this calendar are examples of the Tibetan style of devotional painting, called thangka.

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