Pengcuozeren
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Tibetan ethnicity, born in 1955, a native of Dege, Sichuan. He is a national representative bearer of the Dege Scripture Printing Institute Tibetan Engraved Block Printing Technique, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The Dege Scripture Printing Institute, located in the county town of Dege, ranks first among the three great scripture-printing institutes of the Tibetan regions and has long been known as the encyclopedia of Tibetan culture. Its present printing craft includes procedures such as papermaking, block carving, and printing. From 1980 to 1983, Pengcuozeren studied carving here under the senior artisan Zeb, and from 1984 to the present he has been engaged in carving printing blocks at the Dege Scripture Printing Institute, including the proofreading of scripture blocks. Over several decades he has carved more than five thousand printing blocks, many of them scripture blocks of literary works and pictorial blocks never before held in the institute's collection.
Honors & Recognition
Pengcuozeren has trained more than twenty apprentices. At the Lantern Festival in 2009, he also led a group to Beijing to take part in the Grand Exhibition of Traditional Techniques of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage, where the response from the audience was enthusiastic.
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