Thangka enthusiasts may find another chance to indulge themselves in appreciating more creative and arstistcially fabulous thangka paintings now in southwest China's Tibet as the 2011 thangka culture and art exhibition was officially openned last Friday.

Here follows some zoom-in pictures of the fine and delicate expressions through thousands-of-years old art form which features distinctive Tibetan buddhist or cultural themes.

A young Thangka painter works on a new painting composed of over 500 larger or smaller buddhas. [Photo by Rao Chuyan/China Tibet Online]

Partial zoom-in picture of thangka paintings exhibited at the 2011 Tibet thangka culture and art exhibition. [Photo by Rao Chuyan/China Tibet Online]