Image: 37 x 26.7 cm (14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.) : 64 x 37.5 cm (25 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.) ...

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.

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 ...

Often known as the happiest country in the world, Bhutan – a nation tucked away in the Himalayan mountains – is home to thousands of priceless thangka paintings. Thangkas are Tibetan ...

For the art-savvy Liu, the magnificent piece is too important to miss. The silk tapestry, known as a thangka, is more than three meters tall and two meters wide. The work, created more than five ...

And Studio has conceptualised and developed the Tibetan Thangka Art Museum in Lhasa, Tibet. The Tibetan Thangka Art Museum is located at the foot of the mountain, emphasising the dialogue between ...

Thangka master Niangben often spends weeks or even months completing a single piece, depending on its size. He said that painting thangka is time-consuming and demands sincerity and patience.

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 ...

Tara - 21 Avatars of the Goddess is an exhibition of Thangka religious art made by artists from Bhutan who depict various forms of goddess Tara who is revered in Buddhist and Hindu mythology.

TONGREN, China -- Bent over a stretched canvas that will become a Tibetan thangka (traditional scroll painting), Jia Yang Dan Ba uses a fine brush to etch an intricate web of gold threads over the ...