which we started a year ago with the recognition, that being based in Nepal, we are fortunate to be at the very source of this traditional art form. We are therefore in an ideal position to offer traditional, good quality thangkas produced by our own artist’s atelier for anyone interested in sacred Buddhist art around the world.
Through your orders to HBMC you:
1. contribute towards the preservation of this traditional Tibetan art,
2. become benefactors of an FPMT dharma centre project, and
3. any financial benefit that comes from this Project will help the spread of the Buddha Dharma through HBMC’s collaboration with Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archives (LYWA) scheme, to print their books for regional distribution and with the donations from these books will be sent to LYWA in the USA for them to publish new publications. All aspects of this project have been discussed with Ven. Roger Kunsang, and therefore has the FPMT’s consent.
As you may very well be aware, there are many different qualities, prices, styles (including the tourist’s one) and traditions of thangka painting, but it is a very sad situation when as Lama Zopa Rinpoche, recently mentioned in a public lecture organised by HBMC in Kathmandu, that he didn’t know what to say, when he visits people’s houses in the West and they show him expensive thangkas that they have brought from Nepal, but which cannot be used for meditation purposes, as they do not follow the tradition.
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