Preserving Tibetan Art & Culture
Norbulingka believes in the preservation and continuation of Tibetan art through self-sustaining means. Under the guidance of talented masters, we endow artists and craftspeople with ancestral knowledge, providing jobs to a community of over 300 Tibetans. We invite visitors to come and explore our beautiful campus and witness firsthand the splendor of Tibetan art.
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The scriptorium project was a series of handwritten texts illuminated in gold, silver and other precious materials. Buddhist scriptures are considered even more holy than statues in Tibet and the m...
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This is such a project where the east and west meet to create the first Tibetan etchings - one day in 1998 a German man, a teacher at Woodstock School in Mussoorie in Northern India who was an etch...
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Official Biography of HH the Dalai Lama
In 1984, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Private Office appointed Ngawang Dondup Narkyid to research and write the official biography of the 14th Dalai Lama in Tibetan. In 2000, at His Holiness’ requ...
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