Jiumai

04-1751Tibetan ThangkaTraditional Fine ArtsXiahe, GansuBatch 4 (2012)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

At the age of six he began to study thangka making techniques comprehensively and systematically under the thangka painter Dorje in Tongren County, Qinghai Province. After long years of diligent practice and devoted research his thangka painting skills became superb and won the recognition and praise of experts at home and abroad. He travelled throughout Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, painting a large number of works for these regions.

Honors & Recognition

Male, Tibetan, born in September 1936, died in January 2015, a native of Xiahe County, Gansu Province. A representative bearer of Tibetan thangka (Gannan Tibetan thangka), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. At the same time he devoted attention to passing on thangka skills and training new practitioners, and trained a number of apprentices.

References & Archival Sources

Jiumai · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Tibetan Thangka
Item code: Ⅶ-14
Category: Traditional Fine Arts
Region: Xiahe, Gansu
Born: 1936.06
Batch: Batch 4 (2012)

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