"Each step — drafting, coloring, shading, adding gold lines and drawing fine details — tests the artist's skills. The artist ...

"We need to continue to refine our artistry and learn." The thangka art form has more than 2,000 years of history in Tibetan and Buddhist-related culture. "The core message of thangka painting is ...

Niangben recently concluded his latest exhibition, Inheritance and Beyond, in New York, presenting 16 pieces that celebrate ...

See a related thangka of Avalokiteshvara with eleven faces and eight hands, Tibet, 19th century, on Himalayan Art Resources (no.90131).

In Lhasa, Yu met young people from varied walks of life, including teahouse workers, fashion brand owners, art curators, ...

Dharamshala, cradled in the lap of the Himalayas, is famous for its breath-taking natural charm, spiritual richness, and ...

But the centre was abandoned and fell into ruin during the Maoist insurgency between 1996 and 2006, and “since then we’ve been steadily losing Himalayan art traditions”, he says. Which is ...

This monastery is also the site of one of Tibet's biggest cultural celebrations, the Buddha Unfolding Festival. The festival centers around the debut of a giant, new thangka (Buddhist painting ...

revealing how Chinese cultural traditions contributed to global Buddhist art. Paintings and Thangka, a type of Tibetan Buddhist painting, unearthed from the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and the ...

The style of art Grace practices is a type of traditional Tibetan thangka, the same style Sherpa paints in. A style of Buddhist art that’s found in many other sects other than Nepali culture. The ...