Largest display of thangka paintings

Largest display of thangka paintings
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Who
Tongren County People's Government
What
10,031 total number
Where
China (Tongren)
When
28 July 2019

The largest display of thangka paintings consists of 10,031 paintings and was achieved by Tongren County People's Government (China) in Huangnan, Qinghai, China, on 28 July 2019.

Tongren County, known to Tibetans as Rebgong (Tibetan: རེབ་གོང་, རེབ་ཀོང་, or རེ་སྐོང་) in the historic region of Amdo is the capital and second smallest administrative subdivision by area within Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, China. 75% of the population in the county is Tibetan.

The county is known as a center of thangka painting. There were lots of Thangka painting studios and galleries in the county and Rebgong arts were named on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2009.