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Cirenluobu

05-2582Tibetan ThangkaTraditional Fine ArtsTibetBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In 1985 he studied mural painting under the painter Qiangba Gelie, in 1988 he learned Tibetan mural making under Gusang Langjie, and in 1990 he studied the painting and restoration of Tibetan thangka under the renowned Tibetan painter Zhaxi Ciren.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Born in August 1964 in Qushui County, Tibet Autonomous Region, he is of Tibetan ethnicity. In 1980 he began learning Chenrezig school thangka techniques from Ciren, son of Danba Jiacuo, a thangka painter of the Chenrezig school in Tibet. Through years of study and practice he mastered the distinctive painting style of the Chenrezig school, and used the principle of complementary line forms and mutually supporting colours to raise his own technical level. For more than thirty years he has painted murals in Sera Monastery and other major monasteries in Tibet, and has gathered a large body of documents on Chenrezig school murals and thangkas. His representative works include The Twenty-One Taras (Ershiyi Dumu).

Honors & Recognition

He is a national representative bearer of Tibetan Thangka (Chenrezig school), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Cirenluobu · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Tibetan Thangka
Item code
Ⅶ-14
Category
Traditional Fine Arts
Region
Tibet
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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