Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds a lot of significance in Tibetan Buddhism ... around the debut of a giant, new thangka (Buddhist painting whose images aid followers ...

He simultaneously studied traditional Tibetan sand painting and butter sculpture at the Shekar Chorten monastery in India and thangka painting under Phenpo Tenthar at the Tibetan Thangka Art ...

From the most to least famous, these are ten great paintings dedicated to ancient Greek myths or containing references to them. 1. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of ...

Turner was the most famous British artist of the 19th Century, with a career which spanned half a century. Henry Vaughan was an avid fan who collected more than 200 works and shared them between ...

Robert Barnett is a writer and researcher on nationality issues in China, focusing on modern history, politics, and culture in Tibet. His publications include studies of Chinese policies in Tibet, ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

So it fell to another variety of artist to commemorate the battle. It fell to tapestry makers. After seeing their work, I’m grateful it did. I have never seen an exhibition quite like “Art and ...

When you see the ground covered with colourful tents, prayer flags crisscrossing above them, Thangka paintings and posters of the Dalai Lama on the walls, you know the Tibetans have arrived in ...

Its construction will mark a major step in China’s plan to tap the hydropower potential of the Tibetan Plateau. But it could also intensify a dam-building competition between the Asian ...

The 2024 Asia Artist Awards brought together the best in the industry for an epic night in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday. The event was hosted by actor Ryu Jun Yeol, Jang Won Young from IVE, and Sung ...

The Tibetan Handicraft Cooperative Society, which was started on May 7, 1969, with a seed money of Rs 15,000 given by the Dalai Lama in McLeodganj, has been earning profit since then. Its annual ...