Thang-ka is a Tibetan word which refers to the scroll painting mounted with colorful satins and fabrics. It is the religious scroll painting hung in the hall for the Tibetans to worship. Thang-ka is famous for its florid color and takes traditional non-ferrous ore as the raw material. After the painting is drawn and mounted, colorful satins will be used to connect the frames as decoration. All the dye of Thang-ka is made manually. And because of the high pureness, strong covering capability of the dye, the painting will have gorgeous color and can be preserved for one thousand years without any change in color. Thang-ka is usually hung in palaces, temples, folk houses, and pray halls of the manors in Tibet.

(Yonghegong Lama Temple)

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