Zhuo Meben (C), who has painted thangka for 26 years, instructs the new painters to draw thangka, a Tibetan art form, in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 20, 2006. Thangka, an art form dating back 1,000 years, mainly depicts images of people, god, medical science and history from Tibetan Buddhism. A group of youths choose to become thangka painters nowadays, creating new life for the old art.



A visitor enjoys the thangkas at a shop in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.



Young painters draw thangkas, a kind of Tibetan art form, at a workshop in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.



Two thangka painters exchange experiences at their workshop in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

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