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Tibetan art, a Common card
The vast majority of surviving Tibetan art created before the mid-20th century is religious, with the main forms being thangka, paintings on cloth, mostly in a technique described as gouache or distemper, Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings, and small statues in bronze, or large ones in clay, stucco or wood.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Tibetan art quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tibetan art card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Various types of ______ objects, such as the phurba or ritual dagger, are finely made and lavishly decorated.
Answer
religious. Various types of religious objects, such as the phurba or ritual dagger, are finely made and lavishly decorated. From the Tibetan art article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
My Name Is My Name. My Name Is My Name 83 · José Cura 80 · Tibetan art 77 · Vittore Carpaccio 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
My Name Is My Name. My Name Is My Name 28,000 · Tibetan art 10,000 · Violin acoustics 6,800 · Durham University Library 2,400 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They were commissioned by religious establishments or by pious individuals for use within the practice of Tibetan Buddhism and were manufactured in large workshops by monks and lay artists, who are mostly unknown.
- Various types of religious objects, such as the phurba or ritual dagger, are finely made and lavishly decorated.
- Secular objects, in particular jewellery and textiles, were also made, with Chinese influences strong in the latter.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tibetan art article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Tibetan art
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tibetan art (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ashwin Kumar from Bangalore, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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