The Shalu Association is a not-for-profit organisation, founded in 1994. Our aim is to help protect the Cultural Heritage of Tibet and restore important sites, especially those in urgent need of conservation. Our activities in Tibet provide a rare opportunity to take part in preserving this unique and ancient civilization for all of mankind. During the first three years (1994-1996) we have concentrated on structural restoration in order to save fine buildings, such as the Namseling Manor or Rithang Monastery, or to save important early wall paintings and stucco images, as in the five monasteries of Drongkhar, Shalu, Gongkar, Drathang, and Yemar. Our projects in Rithang, Drongkhar and Yemar have been successfully completed.

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This coming year we shall continue our projects in the three monasteries of Shalu, Drathang and Gongkar, whose wall paintings are amongst the finest and earliest in Tibet today.  In the long term we hope to participate in their cleaning and restoration, and thus save them from further degradation. This will involve much research, documentation and training carried out under the guidance of specialists. We are at present funding a new gönkhang, or protectors' chapel, in Shalu, in order to save the unique early paintings in the oldest part of the monastery.

Sekhar Guthok

The Dzong-Gyap Lukhang

We are also preparing a project for the architectural restoration of the Lukhang Temple behind the Potala, with its superb and unique wall paintings belonging to the Dzogchen Yoga tradition. These are also menaced by water infiltration.