Xirebu
Lineage & School of Heritage
Influenced by his father from childhood, he was fascinated by painting. In 1982 he went to Labrang Monastery in Gannan, Gansu, to study painting, and then spent nearly three years in Tongren County, Qinghai Province, the home of thangka, studying detailed painting methods under a second teacher.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Tibetan, born in August 1961, a native of Jiuzhi County, Qinghai Province. In 1986 he began to study thangka painting systematically under the Tibetan thangka master Amdo Jampa. He has a thorough command of the painting techniques of the three great schools of Tibetan thangka, namely Mentang, Qize and Karma Gadri, and has continuously absorbed the techniques of inland New Year pictures and Western perspective, striving for innovation and creating a series of outstanding works including The Tenth Panchen Lama, Bodhisattva Shantideva and Yamantaka.
Honors & Recognition
A representative bearer of Tibetan thangka (Gannan Tibetan thangka), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
- Tibetan Thangka Ⅶ-14
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