The film has been released in Wisconsin!
Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas premiered at the Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin on Saturday, September 27.
Visit www.creatingbuddhas.com for a continually updated calendar of screenings.
The Daily Page wrote:
CREATING BUDDHAS: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas
a film by Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost
Creating Buddhas is [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Creating Buddhas film release!
Posted in Thangkas, tibetan art, tagged documentary, madison, Tara, wisconsin on September 29, 2008 | Comments Off
Norbulingka
Posted in Thangkas, Tibetan applique, tibetan art, tagged dharamsala, norbulingka institute on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Norbulingka Institute has a beautiful new website!
I first met Tibetan appliqué work at the Norbulingka Institute in 1992 while engaged in volunteer work with the Tibetan Planning Council in Dharamsala, India. I was part of an economic development team touring some of the refugee community’s handicraft centers, together with the founder of a company [...]
My inspirer, Faith Ringgold, was inspired by thangkas
Posted in Fabric, Thangkas, textile art, tagged crosscultural art innovation, Faith Ringgold, portability, tanka on September 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Okay, this may be old news for many of you — since apparently Faith Ringgold started painting her own version of “thangkas” in 1972 after visiting an exhibition of Tibetan art at a museum in Amsterdam — but I just found out. Thanks to my Google alert for “Tibetan art,” I learned something new a [...]
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