Thangka is a unique painting art form in Tibetan art, and the painting of Thangka is a process of reappearance of gods and buddhas. The painters who painted Thangka devoted their lives and time to this square inch.

Thangka canvas is made of smooth and dense white cotton cloth without any stains, holes and cracks. After adding special materials, the canvas is polished, planed and dried.

Get the canvas ready and start painting. Traditionally, all precious mineral gems such as gold, silver, pearls, agate, coral, turquoise, malachite and cinnabar are used as pigments, and some plants are also used as pigments, such as saffron, Xu Changqing, cyanine and Huang Lian, to show their sacredness. These natural materials ensure that the painted Thangka is bright and dazzling, and it is still bright and bright after hundreds of years.

Thangka is the most natural art, which rises from the natural medium woven by cotton cloth and minerals and radiates sacred light.

Thangka is widely favored by people for its unique worship function, communication function, purification function and aesthetic function. In 2006, Thangka was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, and since then, the price has been rising all the way, basically several times a year.