According to Tibetan tradition, the Encampment style was established—or more likely codified—in Central Tibet by the painter Namkha Tashi in the court of the Ninth Karmapa (1555–1603). He placed figures based on Indian models in landscapes inspired primarily by paintings of the Chinese Yuan and Ming courts. His first painting teacher, Konchok Phende of the Menri School, had already begun looking to Chinese models before the Encampment style was established. However Namkha Tashi and his successors carried the Chinese-inspired aesthetic revolution started by Tibetan painters in the mid-fifteenth century much further.