About Nepali Lungta Prayer Flags
Lung ta — "wind horse" — prayer flags are the Tibetan-Buddhist bunting strung across Himalayan passes, bridges, and rooftops. Five woodblock-printed cotton squares repeat in one fixed order — blue, white, red, green, yellow — each colour an element: sky, air, fire, water, earth. The wind carries the printed prayers outward as the cotton frays and bleaches.
This system reads those flags against a deep Himalayan slate ground, so the five vibrant colours flare like bunting against mountain and sky. Weathered cotton, woodblock ink, and horizontal banner rhythm define every surface.
- Origin
- Himalayan Nepal and the wider Tibetan-Buddhist world
- Era
- 1950–1990 (living tradition, mid-twentieth-century spread across Himalayan South Asia)
- Key figures
- Tibetan-Buddhist woodblock printers · Himalayan lay practitioners · Buddhist lama-scribes
- Movements
- Tibetan-Buddhist lung ta (wind-horse) prayer-flag tradition · Himalayan woodblock textile printing
Nepali Lungta Prayer Flags design spec
Colors
Typography
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