Circle of Custodians
Join our circle of visionary patrons advancing Bhutan’s sacred heritage at a national scale.
A single foundational gift of $10,000 USD, a high-impact capital to scale ZDPACC’s core initiatives nationwide.
Your support will directly enable major initiatives like:
1. Project Digitize Dratshang
Help us acquire essential equipment and cover logistics to digitize, catalog, and preserve all antiquities and their associated knowledge within Bhutan by 2030!
2. Conservation Studio
Support the restoration of thangkas and sacred artworks from religious institutions of Zhung Dratshang for professional conservation.
3. Art History Research
Support research extracting critical insights from the Zhung Dratshang manuscript repository. With continued funding, the monks and nuns will systematically document and interpret Bhutan’s sacred iconography, artistic traditions, and historical context, deepening national and scholarly understanding of Bhutanese art history.
4. Collections Management
Finding and organizing preservation works around Bhutan are managed by this department.
5. Cultural Repository
Support the development of a state-level cultural repository of Bhutan that houses interactive experiences that are verified by the monastic community, the custodians of Bhutan’s living heritage.
6. General Operations
Contribute to the training, development, and daily well-being of the monks and nuns working at ZDPACC, strengthening the human capacity needed to safeguard Bhutan’s living heritage.
