Thanka Painting School In Nepal

Kathmandu is no doubt is a highly commercialized shopping city. Upon arrived, we had been crazily doing window shopping. Here you could find all sort of handicraft, furniture, clothes and so on with reasonable prices (but you must bargain). Among all, my passion and shopping priority is still the Tibetan Thanka Painting. So, I dragged poor Alex running in and out of many Thangka painting shops.

I enjoy walking into shops which operated by either artist themselves or within the artists community. Not those run by art dealers. Often I found artists or artist communities are more passionate and able to provide in depth information about their Thangka paintings. Dealers on the other hand, aim more to sell their work and less interested in the art. They also tend to have less knowledge about their paintings.

On our trip to Kathmandu Durbar Square, Monastery Thanka Painting Art School crossing our path by accident. ‘It is an art school, let’s see what they teach.’ As an art teacher for some years, of course I am curious to know how the school is teaching and who are learning. Walking up the stairs, we bumped into D.B. Lama, a gentle young man with a welcome-smile. He brought us up to the 3rd floor to watch students learning, but unfortunately not many people were there.

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