Welcome to the Qinghai Regong Art and Culture Foundation
China - Qinghai's - official foundation for
Tibetan Cultural Art and Heritage
Regong Art Foundation
Purpose
The Qinghai Regong Art and Culture Foundation
was established to preserve Regong Art and importantly to
help the improvished Tibetan people of the western part of
Qinghai that borders Tibet. This area is the place where Regong
art is founded and also one of the key areas of Tibetan Culture.
Politically this area is also know as Huangnan Tibetan Autonomos
region.
Modernization has been slowly eroding away
many indigenious art and Regong Art is under lots of pressure.
The area of Huangnan region is very poor with yearly income
of most poeple to be less than 200USD. There are many people
that make less than 100USD a year. This is barely subsistance
level as defined by the United Nations for the people to survive,
however with their faith the people here continue to struggle
against hardship with diginity and continue to practice their
culture! The geography of the plateau is very demanding and
limited in diversity for food. The Tibetans have a very harsh
life yet from this they lead a peaceful life and has kept
their Art and tradition alive.
Regong Art and Tangka is a way of life for
the Tibetans. They paint their religion and derive an income
from this. The process of making everything by hand in a traditional
method adds to the value of the Tangka. These paintings are
coveted because of its religious value and also beauty and
are sold for thousands of USD. There are also many imitation
that are printed.
Our goal are quite simple:
to preserve and promote Regong Art
to help the Tibetan people of the region
Our plans are much more demanding:
to bring to the world true Regong Art
to build an arts training center
to build an orphanage
to build a network of friends and benefactors
All donations and charity are welcome. From the basics
to items such as computers, books, clothing etc.. will
be appreciated.
For Tangkas we have set some guidlines and hope that
people willing to make a specific donation for them.
We hope that with this website we are able to bring our
cause to the people of the world and also bring the world
to the people in the Huangnan region.
Personally, as part of this foundation I wish to make
everyone's live better. Please join us in our dream.
Sincerely,
Zhang Le Sheng
China's
only official foundation for Regong Art. All material
from this www.regong.org is original and property the
foundation. This website is an on going project. To
improve on this website we hope that you are able to
send us information and data or pictures that we may
use. With your support we will be able to reach our
goals and let the Regong art prosper and beauty be known
to the world. Importantly we hope that are will be able
to participate in our foundation.
