Save historic Buddhist treasures for future generations!

Preservation of Buddhist Treasures and Conservation of Thangka and Paubha September session in Kathmandu, Nepal needs your help! Both local and international participants are waiting to join in, and your donation towards venue, field trips to monasteries and costs for local and international experts remains crucial!

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

On-Site Work: 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.

Read about our approach to conservation in these featured articles:

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Read about Caring for Your Own Sacred Art here:

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