For 82-year-old Thangka art master Karma Delek, nothing makes him happier than painting before his windows in his rural home in Karma town of Qamdo county in the Tibet autonomous region. The town is ...

In the famous bustling bazaar in Lhasa, Southwest China's Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region lies Bakuo Street, known to Tibetans as the "Holy Road," where visitors can see exquisite studios dedicated ...

LHASA, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Norbu Sidar, a thangka master, spent his teenage days reciting vast sutras from Buddhist scriptures, and made sure that his nephews Konchoge and Tsering did the same. Born ...

Inheritors of the craft see value in its history and insist on creating them the traditional way In his teenage years, thangka master Norbu Sidar recited vast sutras from Buddhist scriptures, and also ...

The Yellow River, which began to form 1.25 million years ago, gave birth to the roots and soul of the Chinese nation. As it meanders through nine provinces and autonomous regions, the river not only ...

From peaceful deities such as the 1,000-armed Avalokiteshvara and Goddess Tara to gods at the wrathful end of the scale – Yama, the god of death often seen enshrouded in flames; war goddess Begtse – ...

A female painter graduated from a Thangka art school in southwest China's Sichuan province works on a Thangka painting. [Photo/Xinhua] Along the G316 highway in Tongren City in northwest China's ...

Kelsang Dawa shows his thangka collection at his painting center in Shangri-La, Yunnan province. The Tibetan art genre is energy-intensive－sometimes it takes years to finish one piece. [Photo / China ...

XINING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A 1,260-meter thangka, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting, is expected to be completed in spring in northwest China's Qinghai Province, becoming world's longest ...

The thangka, a sacred painting used in the practice of Tibetan Buddhism, isn't something the novice can plop down in front of and expect to instantly "get." In fact, its use by the uninitiated as a ...