Mahavira
29.7*42cm, Risograph / Digital Drawing
May 2022
Mahavira is one of the traditional Buddhist deities in Chinese Tibet. Thangka paintings often convey themes of powerful gods, life and death and suffering people. With a report I saw about the killing of wild yaks in Tibet, where yaks are considered sacred, I decided to create something. In the torrent of time, people forget history, forget beliefs, and forget themselves. The angry yak deity Mahavira in the Thangka speaks about some modern issues and things that few care about...