(Chief Reporter Liu Heping reported) On the morning of November 15, 2023, the donation ceremony of Mongolian female painter Zhou Na's art works was held in the Potala Palace ⻄ Printing Sutra House. The donation ceremony was attended by more than 20 people, including the Director of the Potala Palace Management Office of the Tibetan Cultural Office, Joksan, the Party Secretary of the CPC Tibet Tourism Company Limited, Li Dongqu Tsetang, and the Doctor of Religion, Dr. Azar Living Buddha of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. At the ceremony, the director of the Potala Palace Management Office, Mr. Jie Shan, presented the donation certificate to the painter, Mr. Zhou Na Jie, and offered a khata.

The Deputy Director of the Potala Palace Administration Office, Mr. Gongga Za'an, who presided over the donation ceremony, spoke highly of Zhou Na's artistic creation of paintings, saying, "Ms. Zhou Na has been devoted to the foreign artistic exchange of Chinese traditional literature and the dissemination of non-heritage literature. Her works, mainly oriental Buddhist art paintings and Zen paintings in ink and water, are well received by art lovers. We are honored to meet here to witness and accept Zhou Na's work "Lamp Offering". As Zhou Na's latest powerful work, "Lamp Offering" demonstrates a ritualistic lamp offering ceremony in traditional Tibetan literature through flexible handwork and delicate brushwork. This work is a combination of Zhou Na's care and deep affection for Tibetan traditional literature, and also has a strong artistic impact. It combines traditional literature with modern art to create a breathtaking picture.

At the donation ceremony, Zhou Na shared with the guests about her inspiration for painting art creation and her understanding of traditional culture over the years. She said, "I use handprints as my artistic symbols, inspired by the prehistoric rock paintings of prehistoric mankind, which are the earliest artistic creations of primitive man. Handprints represent the emergence of human self-consciousness. Hands are tools and creativity, and human civilization from the first grinding stone tools to pottery and bronze production is built on the wisdom of hands. In Buddhism, handprints have been given a deep spiritual meaning. It signifies wisdom and peace, fearlessness and blessing, and is both a language of the mind and an artistic symbol."

The artist's handprints in this painting "Lamp Offering" emphasize the shape of the hands as oil lamps, implying the spiritual consciousness of wisdom as lamps. The artist's brush has a shape and his heart has Zen, a lamp can break the darkness of a thousand years, and the whole picture reflects the prayer of the heart. In the creation, the artist draws on the bodhisattva statues, animals, mountains and rivers in the Guge murals and integrates them into the modeling of the Buddha's handprints, presenting a picture that takes space and time as clues to construct a new intention of thinking and aesthetic interest.

"Toling Monastery is located in Tibet's Ali region, Toling Monastery murals have a strong Himalayan art characteristics. These show a strong color scheme with the use of red and blue, the Buddha's facial image features are also high nose and deep eyes of the Asian and European peoples, light clothing modeling, headdresses arm rings anklets and other jewelry details depicted. These are the best evidence of the East and West cultural exchanges and fusion, but also shows that the traditional culture itself is the integration, vitality, is the ancestors continue to innovate, breakthroughs and accumulation of so the more national is the more the world. This is my understanding of traditional culture, we need to use contemporary, global language to tell the story of our traditional culture. Let the world see the people living on the plateau's love of color, reverence for life, traditional culture contains our way of life is also our spiritual home." Painter Zhou Na said so.

It is reported that before this painter Zhou Na through the cooperation with Tibet lotus treasure, with ali yak bone china production of art porcelain plate handprint works "dragon lady offering treasure" won the first prize of the Tibet gift of culture and creativity, and was selected for diplomatic state gifts.