A Letter of Thanks

August 25,1999

To: Kham Aid Foundation

According to your arrangement, the American conservation expert--Karen and the British conservator--Teresa came to our school to give the Thangka conservation training course from July 17 to August 4. In the course, the two conservators taught the students and teachers of our school on how to clean, repair, transport and restore the damaged Thangka paintings. It benifited all of the students and the teachers who attended the course.

This Thangka Conservation Training Course is the first time in the long history of Tibetan art, and you have done the historic action. We must express our thankful feeling to you for your good deeds especially on behalf of the twelve students and the two teachers of our school. In the course, the experts worked very hard to make the students and the teachers learn more, so we also would like to thank the experts for their giving us so valuable knowledge.

Thank you very much!

Tibetan Language School of Sichuan Province