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Dege Parkhang (Dege Sutra Printing House)

dege · China

Traditional Tibetan woodblock prints, woodblock-printed sutras and woodblock thangka

What you’ll find

What Dege Parkhang (Dege Sutra Printing House) is known for

The Dege Parkhang is an 18th-century Tibetan woodblock-printing house in Dege, still producing sutras and texts from carved blocks. It also prints woodblock thangka on hand-made Tibetan paper.