Danbaraodan

01-0063Tibetan ThangkaTraditional Fine ArtsTibetBatch 1 (2007)

Lineage & School of Heritage

A national representative bearer of Tibetan Thangka (Mentang school), a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; professor in the Art Department of Tibet University and supervisor of postgraduate students. Danbaraodan was born into a family of thangka painters. From the age of nine, while studying general subjects in a private school, he learned traditional Tibetan painting from his father Losang Norbu, mastering every technique and all the color-matching methods of the Tibetan painting tradition.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Tibetan ethnicity, born in 1941, a native of Tibet. In order to acquire a knowledge of Buddhism, at the age of fifteen he entered Sera Mahayana College (Sela Dacheng Xueyuan), where he systematically studied logic, Buddhist doctrine, and painting theory. In the 1980s he was transferred to the Gesar Research Office of Tibet Normal College, where he painted a large number of color illustrations for the Epic of King Gesar (Gesaer Wangzhuan), all marked by a strong Tibetan painterly character. The thangkas he painted adhere to exacting standards of form; their coloring is delicate and magnificently rich, with the azurite blue and malachite green especially striking. His principal representative works include The Great Wrathful Vajra (Daweide Jingang), The Earth, The Cloth-bag Monk (Budai Heshang), and Palden Lhamo (Jixiang Tianmu).

References & Archival Sources

Danbaraodan · 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: 1941
Batch: Batch 1 (2007)

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