

In 1999, Ye Xingsheng made a surprising decision - to donate his years of over 2,000 collection items to the Tibetan Museum. He believes he should return these precious art works to Tibet since they are rooted there. Right before the departure of his collections, Ye was sad, and he tied a Hada (a piece of silk used for greeting gift) to every box containing his collections and burned incense to pray for the future. Days later, he wrote to one of his friends, saying that without home, painting, and Tibetan collections, he had nothing left. He firmly believes, however, that his collections are in the right place.