Tibetan Insignia, Banners and Heraldry of the Yar Lung Age

[Lagartija Mike]

Looking for relevant images or sources. I suspect it would draw on a mix of pre-Buddhist influence Bon-po and Sino-Turkic iconography but Tibet's in the center of a heady flux of cultures and anything seems possible.

[Carpathian]

The pre-Buddhist Tibetans were in the habit of scratching or painting on rocks.

A quick search for "Tibetan petroglyph" yields some intriguing images, and perhaps source material

[Lagartija Mike]

Thanks Carpathian. Interesting stuff, I'm going to go the historically dubious but aesthetically satisfying route of mixing gaudy tantric and animistic images.

[von Lucky]

All my material is for Buddist Tibetans, would be interested to see what you come up with.

[Lagartija Mike]

Thanks, I'll post some images as soon as I'm done. I modded the cataphracts and various retainer and Khamba cavalry from figures from a number of lines (especially Aventine and Curteys). I've never found a line of Tibetan figures that worked for me. Up next, Uighurs with  Manichean banners.