Gama Deleg teaches thangka painting to his apprentices at a training base of ethnic handicrafts making in Kabma Township of Qamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 3, 2020.

Photo taken on Oct. 3, 2020 shows Gama Deleg, an inheritor of the art of thangka painting, with his apprentices in Kabma Township of Qamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Students learn thangka painting at a training base of ethnic handicrafts making in Kabma Township of Qamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 3, 2020.

An apprentice practices painting thangka at a training base of ethnic handicrafts making in Kabma Township of Qamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 3, 2020.