Shangri-la Association of Cultural Preservation (Called as Association), is founded by a group of volunteers who are dedicated to protecting the local ethnic culture assets as their primary mission and trying pass to it on to further generations. The Association targets the Tibetan culture: art, music, handy crafts, folk stories and poems etc.  The Association is registered in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (also called as Gyalthang or Shangri-la), and encouraged and recognized by local government.  It is one of a few non-government and non-profit organizations in North West Yunnan.

The founder and initiator of the Association and chief sponsor, is a highly respected local figure in Shangri-la.  He was a monk in his youth, in time becoming a government officer in the local ‘Ethnic and Religious Affairs Department’.  He was educated in the Minority Academy and attended a Tourism Management course in Austria.  Dakpa Kelden is fluent in English, Chinese, Tibetan, Hindi and other local ethnic languages, and is working to protect his hometown culture assets.  Dakpa has made many people abroad to become sensitive to the plights of local customs and who have in turn aided his dream of preservation on a large scale.  Today, under his great effort, the Association has established an initial and workable platform.

Shangri-La Association of Cultural Preservation
Address:

No. 31 Jinlong Street,

Old town Shangri-la, Diqing

Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,

Yunnan Province
P. R. C

NGO Registration number: 66826497-0
Legal representative: Dakpa Kelden