Tibet's largest Buddhist grotto ruins site mural replication project completed
Completely replicated Buddhist grotto murals.
Personnel in the midst of replication work.
The proportional replication project for Tibet's largest Buddhist grotto ruin site – The Dongkar-Piyang site, a threatened treasure, has now been completed. According to compiled statistics, the project, in effect rescued the cultural assets through replication of 10 murals as well as more than 2,000 diverse kinds of Mandala Buddha statues and figures.
These works will become the world's only series of proportionally replicated ancient Nagri murals. On the one hand, it will be possible to avoid irreversible damage to the murals caused by natural disasters and on the other hand, this project will allow the unmovable cultural relics to have appended a version feasible for future transport, exhibition and scientific research. The Dongkar-Piyang site is a cultural remnant built during Tibet’s Guge Dynasty. It is located in the Zanda County of the Ali region and it is surrounded by forests. Because of the immense concentration of relics found at the Dongkar-Piyang site v, in 1997 it was included in the 3rd collection of Tibet Autonomous Region cultural relics for protection.