Tibetans and Tibetan scholars are alarmed at how Paris' Guimet museum of Asian art has categorised its art and artifacts from ...
Within the monastery, the main temple – known as the 'Palace of Excellent Teachings' –boasts an impressive and diverse collection of Indo-Tibetan art, showcasing masterpieces that have ...
For the Nepal-born Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol, art begins with good attention. “With good attention anything one does becomes good art. In so many ways art really is attention ...
In the summer of 1985, Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, was crossing northern Tibet in a borrowed jeep. It was his first journey to the Changtang, a vast ...
There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition in search of ...
Dawa Drolma is from a family steeped in the ancient craft of Lima copper casting. This intricate technique, involving a blend of gold, silver, tin, zinc and other metals, has been passed down for six ...
Tibetan ritual dancer Losang Samten – who is also an award-winning visual artist and the spiritual director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia (USA) – recently worked with ...