In 1732 Situ Panchen had the artist Thrinlay Rabphel of Karsho trace and sketch some older paintings of the eight great bodhisattvas originally painted by Konchok Phende. Konchok Phende was a prominent painter who had been active in the sixteenth century as a court artist for the Ninth Karmapa and teacher of Namkha Tashi, founder of the Encampment painting tradition. That same year Situ also set up a workshop of artists from Karsho and had these tracings painted. Not only does this set indicate what kind of models Situ selected in his revival of the Encampment style, but it also bears witness to the existence of strong Chinese figural and compositional elements in pre-Encampment painting in the court of the Ninth Karmapa.