Portraits of piety

The late 20th-century author and scholar Shen Congwen developed an authority on the study of ancient Chinese attire. He once donated four vintage Tibetan thangka paintings from his own collection to the Central Academy of Arts and Design, which are now in the collection of the Tsinghua University Art Museum. They're currently on show at Auspicious Land, an exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist paintings and sculptures that's running through Oct 25. It displays 38 thangka paintings from the Tsinghua University Art Museum's roughly 13,000 works. The scrolls are displayed in juxtaposition with dozens of gilt-bronze Tibetan Buddhist statues on loan from the Capital Museum in Beijing.

9 am-5 pm, closed on Mondays, until Oct 25. Online reservation needed. Tsinghua University, 1 Qinghuayuan, Haidian district, Beijing.010-6278-5903.