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The Scriptorium

The Scriptorium

The scriptorium project was a series of handwritten texts illuminated in gold, silver and other precious materials. Buddhist scriptures are conside...

The Tibetan Etching Project

This is such a project where the east and west meet to create the first Tibetan etchings - one day in 1998 a German man, a teacher at Woodstock Sch...

Official Biography of HH the Dalai Lama

In 1984, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Private Office appointed Ngawang Dondup Narkyid to research and write the official biography of the 14th Dal...

Eleven Meters of Wonder - 16 Arhats Appliqued Thangka

One day an American man visited Norbulingka with his camera. He ended up staying a month, never tiring of the wonders around him, and finally order...

Depicting a Spiritual Lineage – The Lives of the Dalai Lamas in thangkas

In 2002, our late Master Painter Tenba Chöphel, had an idea. He proposed a series of thangkas depicting the lives of the Dalai Lamas, an undertakin...

Kalachakra 2006 at Amaravati

One of Norbulingka Institute’s proudest achievements to crown its tenth anniversary was to organize the 30th Kalachakra Empowerment to be given by ...

The Great Kalachakra Tent: A Temple in Fabric

The tent that housed the Kalachakra initiation ceremony in Amaravati in 2006 was unlike any ever made in India. It was masterminded by late Temba C...

Deden Tsuklagkhang Temple

Deden Tsuklagkhang Temple, meaning ‘The seat of happiness’ temple is a magnificent example of Tibetan religious architecture, displaying some of th...

Buddha Shakyamuni Statue

A monumental sculpture for the Deden Tsuglagkhang Temple - the colossal 14ft tall statue of Buddha Shakyamuni, begun in July 1994 and completed in ...

Special Projects: A series of artistic endeavors

Tibet’s past was full of grand projects, ceremonies and artistic endeavors. In fact, these great cultural understandings were a societal priority ...

Trungkar - His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Birthday

གངས་རི་ར་བས་བསྐོར་བའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ།། ཕན་དང་བདེ་བ་མ་ལུས་འབྱུང་བའི་གནས།། སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཡི།། ཞབས་པད་སྲིད་མཐའི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་གྱུར་ཅིག།...

Saga Dawa

Saga Dawa is considered the holiest and most sacred month in Tibetan Buddhism. The Saga Dawa month is celebrated to honor Buddha Shakyamuni's life ...

Interviews with Tibetan Craftsmen - Pema Yangtso

Norbulingka has been training artisans in traditional crafts since 1995, giving new purpose and employment to many young Tibetans in exile. We inte...