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

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...

Norbulingka visitors

For Norbulingka, sustainability is defined by creativity, resourcefulness, hope, respect and responsibility. It is about doing all we can and learn...

Art Workshop - Learn from the Masters

For those wishing to try their hands at Tibetan arts, Norbulingka offers workshops ranging from one day to longer period of time. Courses are desig...

Interviews with Tibetan Craftsmen - Tailoring

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

Interviews with Tibetan Craftsmen - Wood Carving

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