About Nepali Paubha (Newari Scroll)
Paubha is the Kathmandu Valley Newari scroll-painting tradition, older than Tibetan Thangka and visually distinct from it — denser micro-detail, warmer Hindu-Buddhist chromatic chord, and a strict bilateral symmetry around a centered deity on a lotus throne.
Every Paubha is a mandala-frame: jewel-red ground, gold-leaf border-band, concentric prabhamandala halo, and rings of micro-deities radiating in the cardinal directions. The Newari Chitrakar painter caste of Patan has rendered Tara, Avalokiteshvara, and the Sapta-Buddha cycle this way for nine centuries.
- Origin
- Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Patan, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu)
- Era
- 11th century onward; peak Malla-dynasty production 1200–1768; continuous tradition to present
- Key figures
- Lok Chitrakar · Anant Karma Charya · Arniko · Lokesh Chandra
- Movements
- Vajrayana Buddhist art · Newari Hindu-Buddhist syncretism · Pala-Sena Indian Buddhist iconography descent
Nepali Paubha (Newari Scroll) design spec
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