Each year I spend 3 to 4 weeks in the US where I offer many different thangka drawing and painting classes at different venues.
Here’s an overview of the workshops I offered this year in July:
My long thangka painting retreat is held each year in Arco, Trento (Northern Italy). Participants come from many different countries and there are many ways of getting there. We took the slow boat.
Offering Buddha drawing classes to teenagers on high schools…
This month I joined a masterclass with Cornelis le Mair, a contemporary master painter who paints according to the style of the old Dutch masters such as Willem Claeszoon Heda, Willem Kalf, and -of course- Rembrandt van Rijn.
Interview with Carmen Mensink about her thangka artwork and teachings, published in the Dutch Buddhist Newspaper called ‘Boeddhistisch Dagblad.
Meeting with the Venerable Tulku Lobsang, a master in the Buddhist Philosophy, whose teachings are based on the ancient Tantric knowledge that is the foundation for Tibetan Buddhism, Medicine, Astrology and other healing techniques.
I was asked to make some changes to the faces of 3 large Buddha statues, Atisha, Lama Tsong Khapa and Buddha Shakyamuni.
If you’ve never visited Venice and you’re an art lover, I would strongly advice you to go there, as the city itself is a masterpiece!
Exhibition on the Silk Road, which was not one road as one might think, but a collection of ancient trade routes that linked China to Central Asia on one side, and the Mediterranean and the Middle East to the other.
Annual thangka painting course in Northern Italy
The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City -in my opinion the best museum in the world on Himalayan- celebrated its 10 year anniversary.
Every year I offer Buddhist Art Classes for teenagers at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. It’s so wonderful to be able to inspire these teenagers, coming from all backgrounds and religions, through the Buddhas they learn to draw.
Thargey-La, the thangka painter of my lineage has passed away at the age of 85
For many years I’ve been wanting to learn more about the traditional preparation of paints, and this month I was finally able to do so and take some time off.
Tibetan Thangka painting brochure translated in Mandarin Chinese by two of my students from Singapore
Omega Institute, Rubin Museum of Art, E-Vam Institute, Shantideva Meditation Center & Tibet House
Tibetan monks creating a Sand Mandala, and the Thangka Exhibition by Carmen Mensink
First time thangka course in Coimbra, Portugal, a beautiful city between Lisbon and Porto that houses one of the oldest universities in Europe
Guided tour on Mahakala at the Buddhist Festival at the Museum of Ethnology
Guan Yin (also written as Kuan Yin, Kwan Yin or Guan Shi Yin) came from the Indian male bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
NEW! The Tibetan Buddhist Art Calendar for the new year has come out
Designing a logo for Tara Communication…
Each fall art lovers from different countries come together in a gorgeous Venezian ‘Palazzo’ to draw Buddhas
If you want to paint a large mandala with hundreds of people…
How to create a Tibetan Buddhist Mask with Carmen Mensink…
