Buddhist icons from the exhibition hall of the Centre of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The article reviews the Buddhist iconographic images from the exhibition hall of the Centre of Oriental manuscripts and xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The attribution of two types of the Buddhist tanka as pictorial and printed (woodcutting) has been made. It is determined that various techniques of painting tanka in iconographic art in dependence on the cultural context, ritual and social goals have been formed.