If you can't decipher a thangka, you might perpetually remain a "muggle" in the realm of Tibetan culture. The Xizang Autonomous Region in Southwest China and surrounding areas have long been ...

Tongren is famous for the local Regong thangka. It is part of the Regong arts that were inscribed on the UNESCO intangible heritage cultural list in 2009.[Photo/Xinhua] Along the G316 highway in ...

A huge thangka in Drepung Monastry, on the Gambo Utse mountain, five kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/Asianewsphoto] Norbu Sidar, a thangka master, spent his ...

At one studio, 48-year-old Thangka painter Phurbu Tsering is working on a new drawing attentively. Phurbu Tsering's studio is more than 20 years old, making it probably the oldest one on the street.

Among these dedicated people of fine workmanship is Luozang Danba who hails from a local family of repute in the preservation of thangka art for centuries, and is a state-level inheritor of the ...