VIDEO: Tanka: An Animated Vision of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Sunday, February 4, 20188:53 PM(View: 8784)
VIDEO: Tanka: An Animated Vision of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
"TANKA means, literally, “a thing rolled up”. This short film, TANKA, photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, 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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