Antique Tibetan Buddhist Hand-drawn, Hand-painted Mandala on Paper wood carving It is an antique book

It is an antique book page from a volume of Zeitschrift für populäre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy) published by Lith Anst

with a small scratch to the surface of one of one of the lighter swallows

and I would guess at San Vitale as well

as accurately documented in photos

Antique Tibetan Buddhist Hand-drawn, Hand-painted Mandala on Paper wood carving It is an antique bookNot my usual thing, but I've been admiring old Buddhist spiritual drawings of late and keeping an eye out for antique hand drawn and painted examples on paper so was thrilled to find this beautiful mandala, 19th century I believe. I am not expert in the least, but this one appears closely in keeping with traditional Thanka mandala, with Yantra at center (the circle inside of triangle inside of circle); then square divided by color into four quadrants