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 ...

Venice from the Lagoon will be one of the paintings on display As well as the 30 works from Ireland, the loan includes the original cabinet which Vaughan had made to store them. Ms Topsfield said ...

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 ...

After seeing their work, I’m grateful it did. I have never seen an exhibition quite like “Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries.” The seven tapestries that make up ...

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 ...

They weave their lives around karma and the carpets. Karma refers to one’s actions and the consequences of those actions, while carpets, mats and Thangka paintings symbolise their day-to-day struggle ...