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3D printing

Ngakpa Ögyen Dorje, a craft-artist from the Aro gTér Lineage of the Nyingma Tradition, specializes in creating highly detailed 3D printed prototypes, including phurbas and statues. The objects are formed from steel powder, infused with bronze, resulting in full metal products.

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 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 …

Wooden kanglings

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