From warrior shawls to wild silks and sacred paintings, the tribal crafts of Northeast India are a vibrant expression of ...

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.

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 ...

In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the snake or Naga, Sanskrit for “serpent”, is often depicted as a divine or semidivine being with spiritual and physical powers. In Southeast Asian countries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...