For more than a decade, photographer Thomas Laird traveled the length, breadth, and far-flung corners of Tibet’s plateau to capture the land’s spectacular Buddhist murals in all their sublime vastness, intricacy, and their spiritual, emotional, and psychological enrichment.

The treasury of Tibet's wall murals created by master artists over the past thousand years have remained hidden from the outside world until now. Over a series of five expeditions across Tibet Thomas Laird employed revolutionary digital multi-image capture techniques to document over two hundred and fifty of the oldest and most important murals

Murals of Tibet. Art Edition No․ 1–40 ‘Buddha Shakyamuni, Gyantse Kumbum (ca․ 1420)’ US$ 55,000

A World Heritage landmark, this SUMO-sized publication presents the most precious surviving murals of Tibetan Buddhist culture. For the first time, these astonishing and intricate masterpieces can be appreciated in blazing color and life-size resolution.

Seeing these fragile treasures endangered and still relatively undocumented, Laird developed new methods to capture three hundred of the greatest murals painted in Tibet during the past thousand years, at life size resolution: gigapixel images.

Sep 17, 2018 · Thomas Laird’s ‘Murals of Tibet’ follows in the footsteps of this magnus opus, presenting this enchanting and beautiful work, an authentic legacy of Tibetan art and culture for this new millennium.

A thousand years of Tibetan mural masterpieces are now revealed for the first time in a new limited edition book. Ten percent of proceeds benefit the Mind & Life Institute. “Murals of Tibet” captures some of the greatest treasures of Buddhist culture and Tibetan heritage.

Jul 31, 2018 · This collection is the world’s first archive of murals of Tibet illustrated in life-size resolution. We were overwhelmed by the beauty of these amazing Buddhist artworks and wanted to share with you some of the photos that have been released.

Apr 26, 2018 · Now Laird has compiled images of 130 centuries-old, life-size artworks into “Murals of Tibet,” newly published by Taschen. The sumo-sized tome is the first collection of representative Tibetan...

May 26, 2018 · They are some of the greatest treasures of Tibetan Buddhist culture: ancient murals showing the life of the Buddha and the secrets of meditation. Many are hidden in remote monasteries or temples whose walls are crumbling, but a remarkable project has recorded the paintings before they disappear for ever.