Our Journal: Stories from the Foothills of the Himalayas

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། In the land encircled by a ring of snow mountai...

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 and teachings. It is regarded as a great time to e...

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 interviewed a few, who have been apprenticed since the...

Norbulingka visitors

For Norbulingka, sustainability is defined by creativity, resourcefulness, hope, respect and responsibility. It is about doing all we can and learning from the adversities while believing in the po...

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 designed based on the time and interest of individuals ...

Interviews with Tibetan Craftsmen - Tailoring

Interviews with Tibetan Craftsmen - Wood Carving

Moving Forward

Another year has slipped by, and though not the best, it was a memorable one. We move forward into 2022 proud of our achievements in riding the Covid-19 storm that has marked the closing year. With...

Interviews with Tibetan Craftsmen - Appliquéd Thangka

Norbulingka Founding Day: 26 Years

Twenty-six years ago, we were preparing to unveil Norbulingka to the world. Though it was just the beginning, Norbulingka had been the training ground for many of our artisans, in the decoration of...