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An Odd Boy Volume 1
Ngak’chang Rinpoche A memoire of an eccentric aficionado of Bach and Blues, poetry and paintingVolume 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 August 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 August 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 …
