Save historic Buddhist treasures for future generations!

In 2027, TCT is returning to Surmang Monastery to work closely with Trungpa Rinpoche and his monks on conservation of Surmang thangka treasures. Your donation helps with supplies and travel costs for conservators who are donating their professional time.

2027 Preservation of Buddhist Treasures and Conservation of Thangka and Paubha September sessions in Kathmandu, Nepal Due to extreme natural disasters in Nepal, TCT is offering free of charge preservation workshops for community and monastery participants including youth, artists and cultural workers. TCT 2026 sessions were deemed a great success and truly valuable for those who participated.

Since 1970, our team has been dedicated to preservation of Buddhist treasures!

On-Site Work: September conservation training workshops in Nepal included a free workshop on risk assessment and documentation related to the devastating natural disasters occurring there. Furthermore, international experts joined our TCT Thangka and Paubha conservation session as participants, from India, China and the UK.

May work continued in remote Surmang Monastery on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai China. TCT conservators worked closely with Trungpa Rinpoche to preserver historic thangka treasures on-site. This was the second year for this project in Surmang, and we plan to return in 2027.

June work in Mongolia teaching conservation documentation and risk assessment completed successfully! Treasure Caretaker Training was invited in as first professional conservators for remote monasteries in Qinghai (Kham) China, and in the remote Tsum Nepal region! Community and monastic treasure caretakers are grateful for your donations towards 2025-6 hands-on work in Nepal, India, Bhutan, Mongolia and in China on the Tibetan plateau. They will be joining in our planning and on-site work for their communities. We share updated conservation methods and materials and work closely to develop sustainable and ongoing beneficial projects for preservation of cultural heritage treasures for future generations.

Preservation of Buddhist Treasures Resource: Available free-of-charge on-line, including topics of disaster planning and recovery, documentation, safe storage, thangka conservation and more. Written in response to preservation questions from monks, nuns and community members, and illustrated with images from within monasteries, chapters are enriched by input from Buddhist scholars, conservators, scientists, our monastic readers, and offered in several languages.

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Gratitude for your donations towards preservation of remote Himalayan monastery and community treasures!