Diskit Angmo from the India women's national ice hockey team speaks of the long-deserved media attention after cinching a ...

Admiring crowds are watching Ladakh craftspersons make the thangka or cloth paintings depicting the Buddha. Nearby, warli artistes from Thane, Maharashtra, are heard telling visitors how these ...

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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 ...

To people who are interested in understanding the religious culture of this region, an introduction to Thangka is a must. This painting style is the most representative art of Tibetan Buddhism.

This imperial embroidered silk Thangka sold for 348 million HK dollars at Christie's 2014 Hong Kong Autumn Auctions on Nov 26, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua] The news that Chinese collector Liu Yiqian ...

People visit an exhibition of Tibetan thangka painting in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, Jan. 18, 2016. (Xinhua/Fan Peishen) If you are interested in Tibet and Tibetan culture, ...

Ladakh is a complex layering of cultures. Artistic and architectural influences from these areas combined with local practices and Tibetan influences, such as thangka painting and carpet weaving ...

Gama Deleg teaches thangka painting to his apprentices at a training base of ethnic handicrafts making in Kabma Township of Qamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 3, 2020.