Thangka of Tsongkhapa

Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Sichuan Provincial Museum, Chengdu

Thangka, pronounced "tahn-ka," are Tibetan devotional and meditative painted or embroidered scrolls. Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) is the founder of the Yellow Hat school of Tibetan Buddhism, to which the Dalai Lama belongs.