3ft tall
Natural mineral pigments, 24k processed gold paint on cotton canvas

This thangka depicts the Twenty-one Taras, an ensemble of the twenty-one emanations of the female Buddha Tara, revered in Tibetan Buddhism for their compassion, wisdom, and spiritual liberation. Each Tara is distinguished by colour, posture, and attributes. Green Tara, the most widely venerated, is often depicted in the centre is said to embody the fulfilment of all beings’ desires, both worldly and spiritual while, the White Tara pacifies obstacles such as sickness and untimely death and the Yellow Tara increases longevity, peace, and happiness. All the Taras are generally shown seated, with variations in posture and gesture. 

The ensemble emphasizes the centrality of compassion and protection, with Green Tara in the centre while the other Taras are arranged around her in harmonious composition, serving as both devotional and meditative aid in one’s daily practice offering practitioners a visual focus for prayer and ritual.

100×79cm thangka, 193×142cm finished with traditional brocade border
Precious plain silk, brocade silk, with  exquisite embroidered details

Palden Lhamo, one of Tibetan Buddhism's principal guardian deities depicted in an appliquéd thangka. Under the guidance of Master Artist Tsultrim Gyatso, this piece required over three months of collaborative work by his team of three artisans and used more than 1000 individual elements creating the multi-layered representation of the deity.

The piece is finished with traditional brocade border with silk brocade commissioned from Varanasi, India. 

80×45 inches

Portraying the iconic architectural symbol of Tibetan spiritual and cultural heritage, this exquisite tapestry depicting the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, was created over a two-month period by Master Artisan Lhamo Tso with her team of eleven skilled craftswomen. Using the ancient technique of appliqué, this piece is made from approximately 3000 individually cut fabric pieces of silk, linen, and cotton, individually stitched and assembled meticulously by hand. 

The completed piece is then and mounted with wooden dowels for easy hanging.

22×16 inches

Painting in Tibet was both a sacred art used in the creation of thangkas and also a decorative art to ornament furniture and murals in the temples. Rendered in relief painted on wood, Buddha Amitayus, the deity of boundless life, wall hanging manages to bring sacred Tibetan iconography from the traditional canvas scroll onto wood, blending precise iconographic proportions of a thangka with relief painting. 

Created by our Master Artist Ngodup Tsering, he heads the wood painting department at Norbulingka and is a trained thangka artist.

23 inches tall
Hand-hammered from copper sheet, gold plated body and ornaments, with face painted in 24k gold and adorned with semi-precious stones. 

This exquisite one-of-a-kind Buddha Maitreya statue was created by Norbulingka artists using the ancient technique of making statues from copper sheets. The work involves two highly skilled techniques, repoussé - meaning pushed out from behind, because the metal is worked using a hammer and shaping tools from the reverse side, and chasing - the metal is worked on an adjustable anvil or over a bed of pitch that supports the material as it is shaped. These techniques allow the artists to achieve tremendous detail on the statue. 

Buddha Maitreya is the Buddha of Loving-kindness and the future Buddha who will appear on earth to renew the teachings of the Dharma. Seated upright in a posture of readiness, Maitreya is often shown with both feet resting on the ground or supported by a small throne, symbolizing his future descent into the human realm. Maitreya’s image serves as a reminder of universal love, patience, and the continuity of the Buddha’s message through time.

The piece is created by skilled statue-making artists with over two decades of experience in the field, using the ancient technique of making statue by hand-hammering copper sheets. This Maitreya statue took a senior artist about eight months to create and stands as a testament to a unique spiritual tradition that bears witness to a living heritage, preserved and kept alive at Norbulingka Institute.

68x33 inches
Oil paint on Canvas

Norbulingka resident Master Artist Thupten Sangye explores the profound Buddhist concepts of Interdependence, Emptiness, and Interconnectedness through a serene, cosmic composition. Set against a vast, star-filled space with orbiting planets, a central Buddha sits inside a translucent sphere upon a blooming pink lotus holding an alms bowl with a delicate butterfly perched on its rim. By placing the Buddha within this vast universe, the artist bridges the macro-cosmic scale of celestial bodies with the micro-cosmic delicacy of a butterfly. Through this striking contrast, the painting illustrates how all phenomena from the celestial to the fragile, are mutually dependent, intimately connected, and bound within the ultimate nature of mind.

Thubten Sangye is a contemporary Tibetan artist born in India in 1988. He joined Norbulingka Institute in 1998, where he trained and worked across the Wood Painting, Modern Art, and Buddhist-themed art sections. Since the start of 2026, following the reopening of Norbulingka’s Modern Art Department, Sangay has been developing a new series of contemporary works inspired by Buddhist principles and Tibetan cultural heritage. His current artworks explore themes of loving-kindness and compassion, nonviolence and peace, and the Buddhist understanding of emptiness, expressed through human-centered contemporary forms.

41x23 inches
Oil paint on Canvas

Norbulingka resident Master Artist Thupten Sangye bridges traditional Buddhist iconography with a modern, surreal visual vocabulary by portraying a large snake coiling upward through a decayed tree stump that entangles a rooster and a pig. In Tibetan cosmology, these three animals symbolically drive the wheel of samsara - the pig representing ignorance, the rooster representing desire or attachment, and the snake representing anger or aversion. While the core tree trunk is hollowed and rotten by the destructive nature of these afflictions, dedicated spiritual effort causes a vibrant new plant to sprout directly from the decayed wood, bearing a serene Buddha seated atop a lotus at its apex. By rendering these figures emerging from chaotic, cloudy currents around the withered trunk, the composition vividly contrasts the destructive entrapment of emotional afflictions with the organic growth of liberation, showing how true enlightenment blossoms out of transformed suffering.

Thubten Sangye is a contemporary Tibetan artist born in India in 1988. He joined Norbulingka Institute in 1998, where he trained and worked across the Wood Painting, Modern Art, and Buddhist-themed art sections. Since the start of 2026, following the reopening of Norbulingka’s Modern Art Department, Sangay has been developing a new series of contemporary works inspired by Buddhist principles and Tibetan cultural heritage. His current artworks explore themes of loving-kindness and compassion, nonviolence and peace, and the Buddhist understanding of emptiness, expressed through human-centered contemporary forms.

57x32 inches
Hand-appliquéd from Buray Silk

The Snow Lion, a mythical creature of Tibet’s snowy peaks, symbolizes fearlessness, purity, and the essence of Buddhist teachings. White as the autumn moon, with a mane reflecting the pristine lakes of Tibet, its roar expresses the sound of emptiness.

This Snow Lion wall hanging is crafted from Buray silk using traditional Tibetan tailoring appliqué techniques. Approximately 1,200 fabric pieces were carefully layered and hand-stitched by five artisans over two months, preserving the beauty of Tibetan craftsmanship.