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Nepali Lungta Prayer Flags — Cover

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.

Learn more about the Nepali Lungta Prayer Flags style

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

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

JomolhariHeadings
SpectralBody
Noto Serif TibetanMono
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