CREATING BUDDHAS
THE MAKING AND MEANING OF FABRIC THANGKAS
a one-hour documentary by Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost
© 2008 by SOULFUL MEDIA
featuring Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, Robert Thurman, Glenn Mullin, China Galland, Jonathan Landaw, Valrae Reynolds
UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 at the VIET BAO GALLERY, 14841 Moran Street in WESTMINSTER, free, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Available for purchase through Snow Lion Publications and Amazon.com. Please contact the artist or filmmaker if you’d like to schedule a screening.
Review
Detail, devotion, and delight are words to describe Creating Buddhas. Not only is the journey of this ancient art form seen through Leslie’s passion and skill in creating the fabric thangka, it is made beautifully visible by its filmmaker in capturing the pieces of both story and image. –Susan Eaton Mendenhall, Spatial Impact
Product Description
Creating Buddhas: The Making and meaning of Fabric Thangkas is an hour long not-for-profit documentary about a western woman who creates Buddhas out of silk. Fabric thangka is a silk embroidered and appliquéd art form in Tibetan Buddhism and is also known as Appliqué Thangka, Brocade Thangka, and Silk Thangka. Fabric thangka is so rare that in some places it is only seen once a year, and then for only for a few hours. Trained in Dharamsala, India, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is one of the few female makers in world and one of the only fabric thangka makers in the west. This film also explores Leslie s life-changing journey of discovering fabric thangka, her apprenticeship in Dharmasala, the step-by-step by process of producing a fabric thangka, and the history and spiritual significance in Tibetan Buddhism. Through this film, we see her produce a thangka of the female Buddha Tara.
Visit www.creatingbuddhas.com for more information.
