Explore the Life of the Buddha in image and text from the seventeenth-century Tibetan monastery Takten Puntsokling. Produced by the famed scholar of the Jonang School Tāranātha, these murals are closely related to narrative, poetic, and artistic literature evoking the story of the Buddha. The LOTB project offers unprecedented digital access to one of Tibet's greatest retellings of the Buddha's life.
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Monastery
The Life of the Buddha murals are located at Takten Puntsokling Monastery in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Go >
Murals
This hundred-meter-long mural depicts the entirety of the Buddha’s life story as imagined by Tāranātha in his literary work. Go >
Literature
Tāranātha’s narrative is among the most extensive Tibetan compositions about the life of Śākyamuni Buddha. Go >
