Chuah thean teng biography of mahatma

During Mahatma Gandhi's Birth Centenary year, the This exploration was initiated by Chuah Thean Teng, Khalil Ibrahim and so forth.

  • Popular disciple of Mahatma UandKi.
  • Two, Mo-leong and Teng, as Chuah Thean Teng is popularly known, are conferred Datoships, and honoured with State retrospectives.
  • The epithet “mahatma” (great soul) is first used by Rabindranath Tagore to describe Gandhi.
  • Exploring Southeast Asia with Chuah Thean Teng: Father of Batik Painting.

    • Two, Mo-leong and Teng, as Chuah Thean Teng is popularly known, are conferred Datoships, and honoured with State retrospectives.!

    Chuah Thean Teng

    Malaysian artist

    Chuah Thean Teng

    Born

    Cai Tianding


    1914

    Fujian, China

    Died(2008-11-25)25 November 2008 (aged 96)

    Penang, Malaysia

    NationalityMalaysian
    Known forPainting

    Dato'Chuah Thean Teng (Chinese: 蔡天定; pinyin: Cài Tiāndìng; Jyutping: Coi3 Tin1 Ding6; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Thian-tēng; 1914 – 25 November 2008), also known as Cai Tianding, was a Malaysian artist who is credited with the development of batik as a painting technique.[1][2]

    Early life and education

    Chuah Thean Teng was born in 1914 in Fujian, China; Chuah's father traded sundries while his mother made shoes for women with bound feet.

    The family emigrated to Penang, Malaysia when Chuah was 14; Chuah returned to Fujian to pursue an education at the Amoy Art School (later the Xiamen Academy of Fine Arts), but returned to Malaya (now Malaysia) at the age of 17.[1] He subsequently experime