Buray Shawl in Natural White ” At that time he

” At that time he also swore to uphold the teachings of the thousand buddhas for this entire eon

as both can mimic the phonetic sounds of human languages

On one full moon night

on an excursion out of the palace

Painting in relief is an old Tibetan decorative technique

Buray Shawl in Natural White ” At that time he100% Buray silk handwoven, dyed, and finished in Norbulingka workshops. Known as bu ray (insect cloth) in Bhutan and Tibet and as Endi in India, this rugged wild silk fabric is made from the pierced cocoon of the Attacus Ricini moth whose larvae feed on the leaves of the castor oil tree, in the jungles of Assam. Popular in Bhutan and Tibet, buray was imported from Assam for centuries and traditionally used for monks shawls and the famed Tibetan shirt.