Woodblocks- Reveal Tibetan Culture

Tibet is a region endowed with a rich ethnic and folk cultural heritage, which has a great variety and many unique characteristics, and you will find art in almost all aspects of life of people .Explore Tibet Team, a professional Tibet travel agency, today introduces a type of Tibet exquisite craftsmanship- woodblocks to you.

Tibetan culture revealed in woodblocks, especially before the advent of woodblock printing, sacred Buddhist texts were hand copied. Thus we can say that woodblock plays an important role in helping the diffusion of Buddhism，art and literature ,which deeply rooted in the history of Tibet.
Woodblocks are made for printing Buddhist scriptures at first. Due to the hand scribe might take days or weeks to produce a single copy, so the invention of printing can increase the production to hundreds or even thousands copies. Though woodblocks will take longer time to carve than hand copying, and it can bring more convenient in reproduce sutras at an unimaginable rate.
All the woodblocks are made of superior wood, such as red birch. Red birch is an ideal wood for engraving and can remain in good condition. The erosion of hundreds years cannot damage them after being smoked, boiled, sunned, and polished. Texts or scriptures engraved deep in the woodblocks usually are in wonderful calligraphy due to the repetitious printing. Besides, each block of the woodblock will be marked with page numbers and chapters on the top.
Paper for printing is made from a kind of daphne plant root, after undergoing several processing phases, such as washing, steaming, and polishing, the paper become more durable and ink-absorbent, as well as strong enough to resist damage from climate and pests.
The technology of woodblocks can show the exquisite craftsmanship and the intelligence and wisdom of Tibetan people. Comes and experience this magical world of culture with .Explore Tibet Team.