A Gift for the Village

In June of 2007, 7 friends left the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia on a trip to Nepal. Our mission was to deliver a painting of an amazing man in a remote village which sits at 12,000 feet in the Himalayas. The film that documents this cultural exchange is now finished, and in the summer of 2010, it was carried back to Nepal and shown there. The film premiered in the US on September 16 at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke before beginning a new journey around the country.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

What Exactly is a Thangka?

A recent story in the New York Times does a pretty good job of explaining the importance of the thangka painting in Tibetan Buddhism. The reporter visited a site in Tibet where the traditional style of thangka painting is still practiced. If you're interested, here's the link to the story: NYT story on Thankgas.