AN exhibition about life in Tibet has opened at Durham City's Oriental Museum.
The museum has invited painter Ang Tsherin Sherpa and photographer Mike Trickett to exhibit and talk about their works as part of the Tibet Season.
Ang Tsherin Sherpa is a thangka painter, living in the US, and this is the first time he has exhibited in Europe.
Thangka paintings are Buddhist paintings on cloth traditionally used for meditation in the monasteries of Tibet.
Tsherin learned the art from his father, Urgen Dorje, himself a celebrated painter.
North-East photographer Mike Trickett has travelled extensively in China and Tibet and his works show life inside a Buddhist monastery.
His photographs show people and places usually off-limits to Westerners, and visitors to the museum will have a rare insight into contemporary Buddhist life.
Both exhibitions will run until January 30 and there will also be a series of talks and workshops. The museum is open from 10am to 5pm on weekdays and 12pm to 5pm at weekends.
Admission costs £1.50 for adults and 75p concessions.
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