Master Tibetan Thangka Painter Opens New Gallery in CA

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Tibetan Buddhst ceremonial scroll

CALIFORNIA---Master Tibetan thangka painter Tashi Dargyal, about whose work we’ve reported here and here, has opened a new gallery and studio space at the Barlow, in Sebastopol, CA. Visitors to the Tibetan Gallery & Studio will have the unusual opportunity to watch the creation of the first thanbochi — a massive ceremonial scroll unfurled at special Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies — painted outside of Tibet. Currently, Tashi is working on the 20’ x 15’ thanbochi with Mingmar Tsering, the primary teacher at the Institute of Tibetan Thangka Art, in Dharamsala, India. Both artists are adhering to exacting traditional methods of design, employing hand-ground pigments to render the immense image of Shakyamuni Buddha, his two foremost disciples, and the founders of the four principle Tibetan Buddhist lineages. [link]