Quji Angxiu曲吉昂秀
Quji Angxiu was born in 1970 in Gonghe Town, Huangzhong, Qinghai. In 1982 he began training under Tashi Nyima (born 1922), an artist-monk of Kumbum Monastery who had entered the monastery at seven and mastered all three of its renowned arts. From him he learned butter sculpture, painted thangka, appliqué thangka and the decorative painting of temple buildings.
From 1992 to 1995 he studied in India under the Buddhist painter Sangye Yeshi, concentrating on iconometry: the measurements that fix the proportions of every sacred figure.
He has painted and taught Tsongkha thangka professionally for twenty-eight years. He co-wrote the school textbooks on thangka and appliqué, and more than twenty of his students now run their own studios.
曲吉昂秀，1970 年生于青海湟中县共和镇。1982 年随塔尔寺著名老艺僧扎西尼玛学习酥油花、唐卡、堆绣和古建筑彩绘。扎西尼玛生于 1922 年，七岁在塔尔寺出家，习五明之一的工巧明，精通塔尔寺“艺术三绝”。
1992 至 1995 年，他赴印度拜佛画大师桑杰叶茜为师，专习唐卡度量经。
从事唐卡绘制和教学 28 年，致力于宗喀唐卡的传承和发展。参与编写《唐卡校本教材》《堆绣校本教材》，二十多位学生已独立施艺创业。
- Born in Gonghe Town, Huangzhong, Qinghai生于青海湟中县共和镇
- Begins training under Tashi Nyima at Kumbum Monastery随塔尔寺艺僧扎西尼玛学艺
- Studies iconometry in India under Sangye Yeshi, until 1995赴印度随桑杰叶茜学习度量经，至 1995 年
- Named Master of Arts & Crafts of Qinghai Province获评第五届青海省工艺美术大师
- Named Representative Inheritor of Tsongkha Thangka, provincial intangible cultural heritage命名为宗喀唐卡省级非遗代表性传承人
- Fifty-seven thangkas travel to Melbourne for exhibition and auction五十七幅唐卡赴澳大利亚墨尔本展览与拍卖
