Wonderful day to discover the local Tibetan art in the company of my new friends, “Pemba” a Tibetan who is a professor of painting Tangka at the University of Lhasa and “Maggy” a Hong Kong Chinese who is preparing his thesis of architecture on buildings Tibet. All this is very cultural and very interesting .. 
Under the rain I joined the bus direction Tongren. It’s in the rain as the bus was traveling in the middle of mountain landscapes in colors of green grass and red earth on the muddy track through the debris of stones. Tightly between the Tibetan grandmothers and children, contact is assured.
Arrived at Tongren team I was with my friends almost Chinese. Scholars and keen art, Chinese and Tibetan speaking English, their pedigree has opened many doors yet closed double turn.
Tongren is a city no! Building type HLM criss-cross the city, almost all the same: They are covered with white tiles and the windows are blue! Maggie says it is the style Bathroom. I am not at all agree with her! pour moi c’est le style “toilets”!
What is see is outside the city, and there is no need to say but Tongren Repqong! (Art Repqong is not world famous?)
After walking in a thick and sticky mud in the monastery Magotsang we fell in awe of some thirty Buddhas earth used to make molds for statues made of copper or brass. Our emotion was great to see all these Buddhas at hand caresses.
The monk guardian has exceptionally open the doors where the statues meditate in the dark.
Immense and golden, Tsong Khapa and Maitreya capturing our humble regards. We spent some time admiring the fine and the large number of murals. We visited the workshop of the great masters painters Tangka, have seen the splendor academism perfect. Unfortunately not a shop on the horizon Tangka.
All those products are here for monasteries and this may be the best.
In the afternoon, when the sky is once more lenient, we visited the new monastery Repqong also filled with treasures.
As our trip approached we graduate a restaurant we crossed our monk in the morning and together we had dinner. I had the pleasure to invite everyone in this luxurious restaurant! The addition was sweet: 4 in total! Now it’s late, good night!
