![Young painter Tashi Gyabu is drawing a piece of Thangka work, which is said to have more than 500 Buddhas on it. [Photo/China Tibet Online]](./W020111018318810462184.jpg)
Young painter Tashi Gyabu is drawing a piece of Thangka work, which is said to have more than 500 Buddhas on it. [Photo/China Tibet Online]
The 2011 Tibetan Thangka Art Exhibition, opened on October 14 at the Tibet Museum, is a platform of artworks competition and cultural exchange among the Tibetan painters of the old, the middle-aged and the young generations.
The Thangka art is continuously carried forward in Tibet through inheritage and protection, enriching people's visual sense in various forms such as canvas, jade and wood.
A total of 118 painters attend the exhibition with their works including hand-painted, barbola, embroider, woodcarving and even jade-carving Thangka works. Some painters also bring murals to feast people's eyes.
Tashi Gyabu, owner of a Thangka shop at the Barkhor Street in Lhasa, brings an piece of unfinished Thangka work and draws on the exhibition with the purpose that more people can witness the charm of Thangka. If it goes smoothlly, his work of over 500 Buddhas will be finished in half a year.
The exhibition displays 263 pieces of Thangka works and will last for 5 days.
