Thangka Art & Meditation Intensive Retreat

4th – 13th September 2025

PORTUGAL

Brahma Vihara, North Portugal

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​Co-hosted by Burgs and Carmen Mensink, this 10 day retreat will be a very special and unique event giving students an immersive and nourishing experience while learning new skills whilst simultaneously working at your meditation practice.

Learning to draw the Buddhas we will be using the ancient grids, geometry and proportions that have been passed on for centuries to help our creations become sacred art.
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Buddhist practitioners not only find this retreat extremely therapeutic but they will surely also notice that this week of

Dharma based art will deepen their practice at a number of levels.​
​In this wonderful 6 or 8-day Thangka Retreat during Arts Week at Omega Institute you will learn to draw (and color or paint) a Buddha of Compassion (such as Chenrezig or Guan Yin), according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Suitable for everyone, from beginners to advanced.
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A comfortable stay with full board is included, or stay near in the sweet town of Rinebeck.

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and apart from the art sessions you will learn so much more through the lectures, meditations and movies that are offered. And of course there’s free time to visit Florence.
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