On April 25, 2005, students from Damxung county vocational-technical school in northern Tibet paint Thangka in Tashi. (Photo by Kelsang Dawa / Xinhua)
Thangka comes from Tibetan, meaning "Buddha's scroll painting.” It shows the contents of main Tibetan Buddhism with themes involving history, culture, medicine and other fields for 1300 years of history, known as the "Tibetan encyclopedia.".
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