Artist: Achu Jiangcun (阿珠江村)
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Achu Jiangcun (阿珠江村)
Achu Jiangcun was born in 1996 into the Achu Tsangsa household of Guseyu Village, Bolo Township, Jomda County, Tibet Autonomous Region. He studied writing as a boy and at the age of fourteen began training in painting under a teacher at Derge Lingtsang. He later worked in Lhasa as a painter for the Panchen Lama. After eight years of formal study under the teacher Namgyal Dorje he achieved considerable distinction, serving as lead painter on the mural programs of the Jokhang Temple and of the Red Palace at the Potala. He worked as a painter for many years in Dartsedo (Kangding) and Chengdu, and subsequently became affiliated with the Tibet Art Museum and was recognized as a national-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage; for three years he served as a specialist alongside Professor Lobsang Ta of Tibet University.
His painting King Gesar entered the permanent collection of the Tibet Museum. He has recently founded a thangka painting school named Anse Dawa at the Tibetan paper mill at Dongluo Gabu, Mainling County, Nyingchi, Tibet, where he has trained a large number of students.
Jessica Rigby, 10-2026
