An exhibition on Miansa thangka is held on May 4th at the Mass Art Gallery of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. [Photo/Chinatibetnews.com]

An exhibition on Miansa thangka was held on May 4th at the Mass Art Gallery of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
 
Works shown at the exhibition were all painted by the thirty-year-old Tenzin, an inheritor of Miansa thangka, who started to learn the art at 13 under Master Tsering and Norbu Sidar successively. He once participated in numberous restoration projects for murals and attended many tangka art festivals and expos, and his artworks are collected by museums in southwest China's Yunnan Province and Nyingchi City in Tibet.  

Norbu Sidar, Tenzin's teacher also came to the exhibition, examining each of the pieces.

"My teacher says this one is quite distinctive, with unique techniques and composition," said Tenzin happily while pointing to the work titled Sakyamuni.

The exhibition was jointly hosted by the Tibet's Cultural Department, the Thangka Art Academy of Tibet and the region's Mass Art Gallery.

As one of the thangka exhibition series launched in 2014, it has become a platform for thangka painters to show and exchange their skills and promote Tibetan culture. Untill now, the exhibition series has held 10 Thangka shows and six forums for thangka inheritors.