Nyemo Thunba

A Nyemo maker’s career connects childhood apprenticeship, a Lhasa workshop and new forms of incense made for changing everyday uses.

Across Nyemo, water-powered incense mills, Xuela papermaking and Pusong woodcarving connect different villages through skilled handwork.

Nyemo Thunba

Tenzin Chodzha’s Incense: From Learning Ingredients to Teaching Others

A Nyemo maker’s career connects childhood apprenticeship, a Lhasa workshop and new forms of incense made for changing everyday uses.

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Nyemo’s Three Crafts: Fragrance, Paper and Carved Wood

Across Nyemo, water-powered incense mills, Xuela papermaking and Pusong woodcarving connect different villages through skilled handwork.

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Pusong Woodcarving: A Family Skill Finds New Forms

In Nyemo, carvers apply inherited cutting skills to printing, decorative objects and customised designs, while training another generation.

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River Water and Incense Paste at Thonpa

In Nyemo’s Thunda village, watermills reveal how a local river enters the preparation of incense ingredients.

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Xuela Paper: Plant Fibres, Family Work and a New Generation

Papermaker Gesang Denzin’s workshop in Nyemo turns prepared roots into sheets, while notebooks, lamps and cultivation trials extend the craft’s possibilities.

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