How are human skin thangkas being made?

I don't know of anyone currently making thankas on flayed human skin, however, there are some ritual items made of human bone including skull caps for “kapalas” and femur heads for “kanglings”. read more

The lamas, who escaped to other countries after 1959, don’t have chance to peel human skins too, because of the law of other countries, and also they won’t admit they’ve made human skin thangkas to the world, even if they did before. read more

Flayed Skin Friezes of Wrathful Offering Assemblies The illustration on Plate 136 depict three drawings of the upper frieze or canopy of flayed human and animal skins that crown wall paintings or thangkas of the assembly of wrathful offerings (Tib. rgyan tshos). read more