From India, the art of painting gradually spread to Nepal, China and Tibet. Historical records also mention that painting was introduced to Tribet from India as well as China. The most renowned early Tibetan painters were Nentha Dhundup, Khentse Chenmo and Trulkul jew.

In Amdo region, painting became so popular, in legend boasts of there being once around thousands of painters among whom Bhawen and Lubum Lhadri earned nationwide fame. According to folklore, once an artist painted a rat kept it at a place where it would be visible to a cat and, as expected, the cat, on first sight of the mouse, jumped onto it. So realistic was the representation of the animal on paper!

Elsewhere, in Gyarong, there once reined a feudal chief named Samang Gyalpo. His fieldom was as rich it was populous. His fiefdom, it was said, was dotted with renowned artists, astrologers, doctors, gold and silver workers and sculptors etc. The chief opened many centres of learning for all the arts and decreed that the fine arts so developed in his fieldom should not decline for generations.

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