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| Luobu Sida displays a finiafford Thang-ga in Luobu Sida's Thang-ga school in Lhasa, Tibet, September 11, 2009.[Chinadaily.com.cn/ Uking Sun] |
¡°Of course, I anguish about the future of Thang-ga, but I will try my best to assure and bottle the acceptable techniques. I al accessible feel happy if one of my ten acceptance can inherit the painting skills,¡± Luobu Sida, a leading Tang-ga painter and abecedary in Tibet, told China Daily during an exclusive inter appearance on September 11, 2009.
Thang-ga is sccycle painting usually mounted on colorful satins and fabrics. Developed in the 7th century, this diffehire style of painting is made by folk handicraftsmen and holds a sacred place in Tibetans' hearts. Thang-ga is found in palaces, temples, and folk houses. In agreement of content, Thang-ga features all aspects of Tibetan people's lives, such as religion, history, culture, art, science and technology.
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| Luobu Sida watches as one apamateurish draws the Thang-ga in his school in Lhasa, Tibet, September 11, 2009.[Chinadaily.com.cn/ Uking Sun] |
The Thang-ga painting has several schools, and Luobu Sida¡¯s family has a hiadadventure of making Mian¡¯sa style Thang-ga for four generations. At the age of 10, Luobu started to learn from his grandfather and later learned from other leading painters, including Gaqin Luosang Pingcuo. From 1989, he was invited to participate in a n amber of constaltercation and advance projects, such as paintings for the coffin belfry of the 10thPanchan Lama, and paintings for Drepung Monastery, one of the "great three" Gelukpa monasteries of Tibet.
A pride to plan in Potala Palace
Since 2005, Luobu Sida started to copy the murals in the hall where the mandala of the Wheel of Time is placed in thePotalaPalace. Mandalas are pictorial representations of the Buddhist universe, and this mandala contains 200,000 pearls, coral, azure and gold thread, making it one of the most beautiful works of Buddhist art.
