Thank you for your support, we really look forward to continued generosity through this season of giving! Our monastic treasure caretakers, scholars, transcribers, photographers, editors, translators, and digital documenters are all grateful! …caretaker-training.networkforgood.com

Fire, Earthquakes, floods, and theft threaten Buddhist treasures in monasteries and communities! …caretaker-training.networkforgood.com/projects/8462-…

Learn about the challenges of conserving Buddhist wall paintings with Fellow Ann Shaftel! Click through the images, showing issues with varnish, environmental problems that lead to bubbling, cracking, or peeling, & other major risks to this kind of art: bit.ly/38aMZv7

Because we are writing PRESERVATION OF BUDDHIST TREASURES RESOURCE including chapters on Wall Paintings, here are images from that chapter. Visit our websites: treasurecaretaker.com …caretaker-training.networkforgood.com Watch our video! youtube.com/watch?v=6omYjk…

Thanks to Ann Shaftel for another amazing session! Costume studies students and faculty got a close-up hands-on experience with Silk Route textiles today.

A close-up of a spectacular piece from Ann Shaftel's teaching collection.

Faculty and future leaders in textiles/costume studies enjoyed their time today examining Silk Road textiles at Costume Studies at FSPA Dalhousie Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences thangkapreservation.com CAC-ACCR Treasures Resource #goldenthreads Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Prof. Christa Brosseau and student Carolyn Farling examining paintings included in our upcoming exhibit, SCIENCE AND THE SACRED at the Chase Gallery in March. Raman Spectrometer revealed a mix of natural and synthetic pigments. thangkapreservation.com treasurecaretaker.com

STEM exhibit on preservation of sacred art. Please contact us with any questions!

Why do museum paintings look perfect but monastery paintings look damaged? Read about it here! …caretaker-training.networkforgood.com

SCIENCE AND THE SACRED preservation science art installation 1. Scientific analysis 2. Preservation science community education 3. Replica use following conservation treatment of originals 4. Artistic excellence and continuity Nova Scotia Archives Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art treasurecaretaker.com

youtu.be/Eu8oRk6lX84 Just released! Cantonese language video treasurecaretaker.com

A new resource created at the request of monasteries “Caring for Monastery Treasures during a Pandemic" is available on our webpage treasurecaretaker.com/manual-for-the…

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#conservation of #thangka, virtual learning can be joyful! treasuresresource.com Karmapa

Measuring environmental conditions for dharma center lineage treasures with remote datalogger for temperature, relative humidity and light levels, and digital illuminometer for light exposure. Light damage is cumulative and irreversible. #thangka #preservation #riskassessment