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3D printing

Ngakpa Ögyen Dorje, from Finland, is one of the marvellous bZo-pa / Craft-Artists of the Aro gTér Lineage of the …

An Odd Boy Volume 1

Ngak’chang Rinpoche A memoire of an eccentric aficionado of Bach and Blues, poetry and painting
Volume one of an odd boy is …

An Odd Boy Volume 2

Ngak’chang Rinpoche The peak of the British Blues Boom - and Savage Cabbage the band who could have rivalled Cream. At their …

An Odd Boy Volume 3

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Volume Three of an odd boy tells of the foundation course at Farnham Art School from ’70 to ’72. At …

An Odd Boy Volume 4

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Volume four of an odd boy begins in Bristol, England, and ends in Heights Café in Brooklyn, New York. The …

Appliquéd thangkas

Less widely known than the art of thangka painting is the art of thangka appliqué, where the images of awareness …

a rabid domestic terrorist

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice I have been thinking a lot about the subject of—I do not really know what to call it now—of …

A small collection of Aro gTér Lineage thangkas

Below is a small collection of Aro gTér (A ro gTer / ཨ་རོ་གྟེར་) Lineage thangkas. These are thangkas of the …

Calligraphy

Sky Signature

The calligraphies shown below have been created by Ngak’chang Rinpoche. Many of these art works begin with a circle – …

Crystal Ornaments

Shèl-gyèn

Shèl-gyèn (shel rGyan / ཤེལ་རྒྱན་) Crystal Ornaments used for the Peaceful Yidam Dorje Gar’cham (rDo rJe sGar ‘cham / རྡོ་རྗེ་སྒར་འཆམ་ …

Iron chain-link shawl

The original Iron Chain-link Shawl was commissioned by Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje and first seen by Ngak’chang Rinpoche …

Lineage statues

The above statue of Ngak’chang Drüpchen Aro Yeshé was made by Rabi Raj Shakya, the statue maker who made statues …

Line drawings

Khandro Déchen has studied iconographic drawing and thangka painting since 1995. She draws most of the image references for practice …

Machine embroidery

Several highly detailed designs have recently been created by Ngakma Kyung'tsal Pamo in Bavaria, turning photographs and paintings into highly …

Monumental phurbas

Monumental phurbas were built in Southern Tibet on the borders of Bhutan in the Aro Gar yogic encampment according to …

Namkhas

The practice of Sky Weaving is called ‘Namkha’ in Tibetan, which means ‘sky’ or ‘dimension’. This meditation practice involves weaving …

Painted thangkas

Khandro Déchen (author, thangka painter and principle Lama of the Aro gTér tradition) explains what a thangka is and how …

Retreat Centre Appeal : Art

8 Awst 2015

Facilities will be established for craft work in general, and thangka painting in particular.
Our Spiritual Directors, Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro …

Retreat Centre Appeal : Craft – gTér Bum

15 Awst 2015

The Treasure Vase (gTér Bum) ceramics project is an example of our craft work. It was led by one of …

Silver ru-gyèn

On the statue of Mamo Ral-gÇigma

Mamo Ral-gÇigma (ma mo ral gCig ma / མ་མོ་རལ་གཅིག་མ་ / Matari Ékajati) the Single Braid Mother. When this statue was …

Sky Signatures

the calligraphic art of Ngak ’chang Rinpoche

Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s is currently creating ‘Sky Signature’ calligraphies. He has had no time for some years — but has been …

Vajra Hammers

Dorje Çak-tho (rDo rJe lCag tho / རྡོ་རྗེ་ལྕག་ཐོ་ ) the Vajra Hammer of Dorje Legpa and Dorje Legma.
This vajra weapon …

Wooden kanglings

For the practice of gÇod (གཅོད་), it is neccesary to obtain a kangling - a human femur bone trumpet for …