Subject: Himalayan Art Number Sets

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Two:
- Two dimensional art
- Two Iconographic Compositions: traditional program & individual program

Three
- Three Basic Figurative Forms: Buddha, Tara, Vajrapani
- Three Dimensional Art
- Three Moods: peaceful, semi, wrathful
- Three Painting Subject Types (subject): figurative, decorative, ritual
- Three Sculpture Subject Types (subject): figurative, decorative, ritual
- Three Textile Types: applique, embroidery, weaving
- Three Yanas: hina, maha, vajra

Four
- Four Composition Types: grouped, register, repeated, floating
- Four Colours: white, yellow, red, blue
- Four Gender Types: male, female, hermaphrodite, asexual
- Four Ground Colours: multi, black, gold, red
- Four Hat Types: pandita, fan, lotus, cap
- Four Traditions of Tibetan Buddhism: Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug
- Four Types of Lineage Composition: right to left, alternating, dual, asymmetrical
- Four Types of Miniature Painting: illuminations, tsakli, banners, Mongolian
- Four Types of Sculpture Sets: lineage, tantric cycle, compendium, number sets

Five:
- Five Main Deity Types: peaceful, semi, wrathful, animal, warrior
- Five Types of Painting Sets: Narrative, lineage, tantric cycle, compendium, number sets

Seven:
- Seven Reasons for Creating Art

Eleven:
- Eleven Deity Types
- Eleven Figurative Forms

Twenty:
- Twenty Line Formula: (curriculum)

Jeff Watt 2-2016