Some of Situ Panchen’s most important and prominent artistic legacies are the multi-painting sets that he designed, many of which are still copied to this day. Among these only six were mentioned in Situ Panchen’s autobiography as his own commissions. Six other sets of paintings have been identified in this exhibition using other written sources or on the basis of stylistic similarities with the first six. These similar details include the unusually diminutive depiction of figures in landscapes, and miniaturist treatments of trees, buildings, palaces, and courtyards.

Situ reminisced that through the paintings that he designed and commissioned the artistic traditions of his native Kham were beginning to shine again, and he clearly made efforts to revive and maintain the traditions of his home province.