Local schools have also started to teach Thangka painting.
Dekyi Drolma is now studying Thangka painting in a vocational college in the prefecture. She needs to spend three years to learn every step in the process from preparing materials and making pigment to coloring. Her courses run from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. everyday.
"We are required to concentrate our mind on the painting. Although it takes more than 10 hours per day, I feel relaxed and peaceful in the process of drawing Buddhist deities. I'm very glad that I engage in this kind of art and will make it my career," she said.
Alongside preservation efforts, Thangka also has significant economic value.
Lhachigya, a villager of Kajia Village in Tongren County, is a Thangka painter. His brother and uncle also make money by such painting.
With exquisite workmanship, his family can earn 300,000 yuan (about 44,117 U.S. dollars) every year, and their lives have been improved significantly over the past few years. They have built a new house and bought a car.
"We have seen an increasing number of tourists and merchants visiting Qinghai, who are interested in Thangka and like to collect Thangka paintings. Some masterpieces painted by famous painters can be sold for more than 10,000 yuan each, while a bigger size artwork will be much more expensive," Lhachigya said.
In Tongren County, over 90 percent OF households are practitioners of the painting.
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