Framing is completed! Special thanks to His Holiness’ tailor Namsachemo. #thangka #dalailama #tibetangallery #tibetanart #tashidhargyal #preservetibetanart #bodhgaya #buddhistart #nalandamaster...
The thanbhochi has been laid out to prepare for framing. Here Tashi speaks with senior monks at the Dalai Lama’s Namgyal monastery. #thangka #tibetangallery #tibetanart #preservetibetanart #tha...
It’s 8am in Bodh Gaya; yesterday the frame preparation began. We are honored that His Holiness asked his tailor, Namsachemo, to be involved in the process. Together with one of his students, th...
For the past fortnight, Tashi has been in Bodh Gaya, preparing for the thanbhochi to arrive. It’s been 15 years since he was there last, and he took extra time to visit revered sites of pilgrim...
They say it takes a village. Tashi spent five years painting the thanbhochi - an unpaid labor of love and dedication. This morning, it made its way into Namgyal monastery in Bodh Gaya where it wi...
After 16 harrowing days in transport, the thanbhochi has arrived in Bodh Gaya! #tibetanart #tibetangallery #dalailama #thangka https://www.instagram.com/p/Brdiu7AFBu1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&...
Tashi has trained and painted for over 15 years. From 2006-2010, he was the artist-in-residence at the Ganden Monastery in Dharamsala. He is both a master thangka painter and craftsman — painting and decorating statues both for the Monastery and private customers. He currently lives in Sonoma (CA) and works closely with the school he helped start in India. Tashi has traveled throughout India to work in monasteries to restore and decorate statues and has been integral in the Tibetan art community. He studied under the late Ven. Sangye Yeshi, who reactivated the long and rich tradition of thangka painting in Dharamsala by opening a school at the Tibetan Library of Works and Archives. When this first school was shut, due to restructuring of the Library buildings, Tashi worked with his teacher to start the Institute of Tibetan Thangka Art. Through his initiative, the ITTA was started, and staffed with the best teachers. Tashi has shown his works along with his ITTA contemporaries at the Tibet House in New Delhi, at the Museum at His Holiness’ the Dalai Lama’s temple in Dharamsala, and at the Tibet House in New York. His thangka were featured art on TLC’s series New York Ink (placed with Sheppard Fairey’s Obey art), at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Tubac Center for the Arts where it received Honorable Mention in a juried group exhibition, as well as at Invisible NYC Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side. Tashi’s thangka have been auctioned by Christie’s to benefit the Tibet House; he has also donated works and lessons to benefit the Tibetan Aid Project and the Tibet Fund, who showcased his work in their PSA on the Jumbotron in New York’s Times Square. He has taught classes at the Tibet House, the Newark Museum, as well as to private groups and has completed murals for Jivamukti Yoga in New York. In June 2013, Tashi opened a gallery and studio in Sebastopol, CA to showcase his work; the studio is home to a massive thangka, known as thanbhochi — Tashi is the first Tibetan to paint a piece of this scale outside of Tibet. Learn more at www.PreserveTibetanArt.org Tashi takes private commissions, and is also available for decorative painting, and Tibetan script design. Please note, Tashi’s thangka are only available for sale from the artist directly. Other sites have been listing his works, these are not authentic.
The final thanbhochi photo is completed. It was quite an undertaking! We must express our sincere gratitude to the couple that has made the Tibetan Gallery & Studio possible. They have insiste...
Detail of offerings to Buddha in the thanbhochi. You can order a copy of the coloring book based on this ceremonial thangka at bit.ly/ColoringForMeditation
Looking for inspiration for patterns in Buddha’s robes? Here is a detail from the thanbhochi… www.ColoringForMeditation.com - order your book today!
Simply stunning! The most complete picture taken to-date of Tashi Dhargyal’s ceremonial thangka, or thanbhochi. It has taken him four years so far; it will be completed in the summer of 2018. ...
Beauty and Tradition on Canvas - Napa Sonoma Mag - June 2017 - Napa and Sonoma : “Work began in July 2013, with hopes of completing the thanbhochi by 2018. Now in the final stretch, Dhargyal ...
A beautiful feature story in Sonoma County’s Press Democrat on Tashi’s book, Coloring For Meditation. Read the article: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/7152951-181/local-artists-col...
Can you identify the 17 Nalanda Masters and these other revered Buddhist teachers?
Tibetan master artist Tashi Dhargyal’s adult coloring book, Coloring For Meditation with Tibetan Buddhist Art is available now! Here, Tashi’s junior assistants assist. Make sure to get ...
24k gold detail surrounds Je Tsongkhapa in the thanbhochi. Learn more at PreserveTibetanArt.org. Color yours: www.ColoringForMeditation.com
Torana Detail: This is one of the many beautiful designs to color in Tashi’s new book: Coloring For Meditation With Tibetan Buddhist Art. Get yours: bit.ly/ColoringForMeditation
Makara Detail in the Torana: This is one of the many beautiful designs to color in Tashi’s new book: Coloring For Meditation With Tibetan Buddhist Art. Get yours: bit.ly/ColoringForMeditation
Tibetan Buddhists have long seen art as a powerful meditative practice, but you need not be Buddhist to enjoy coloring the fifty illustrations in Tibetan thangka master Tashi Dhargyal’s new adu...
Preorder yours now! bit.ly/ColoringForMeditation www.ColoringForMeditation.com