An introduction
A seamless blend of the contemporary and the immutable ancient tradition meets bold design in the work of Tashi Mannox, celebrated Tibetan Calligrapher.
One of the world’s foremost contemporary Tibetan calligraphers, Dharma Artist Tashi Mannox innovates in technique and concepts firmly rooted in the integrity of the ancient tradition.
Two decades spent as a monk of the Kagyu order inform his practice: his calligraphy and iconography. While technically and aesthetically compelling, Tashi’s work also acts to illuminate ancient Buddhist wisdoms.
༄། གང་གི་སོར་རྩེ་ལས་འཁྲུངས་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་ཡི་གེ་གཟུགས། །
སྐྱེ་དགུའི་ཡིད་དབང་འཕྲོག་པས་ཐར་པའི་ལམ་དུ་འཁྲིད། །
སློབ་དཔོན་ཐོན་མིའི་དབྱངས་གསལ་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་སྤེལ་གསུམ་ཕྱིར། །
གསར་གཏོད་རྣམ་དཔྱོད་རྩལ་ལས་མཛེས་པའི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་བཞེངས། །
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་མན་ནོག་སིའི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་སློབ་ཁྲིད་ཉན་ཞོར་དུ་ཡོན་ཏན་གཟེངས་སུ་བསྟོད་པའི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་འདི་ཨ་རིའི་བློ་བཟང་གིས་བྲིས་པ་དགེའོ།།
༄། Born from the tips of your fingers, mystical letter forms
Capture the hearts of beings, leading them on the path to liberation.
To preserve and uphold Minister *Thönmi’s literary tradition,
You manifest beautiful Calligraphy from the creative potential of the intellect.
This verse was composed by Lowell Cook in homage to the great Dharma artist Tashi Mannox while listening to one of his calligraphy lectures. May goodness abound!
*Thönmi Sambhota
If you like learning, or at least engaged by watching informative and inspiring videos, if not just to enjoy the ASMR calming effect of the rhythmical creation of beautiful writing. You may be pleased to discover that for some years now, Tashi Mannox has managed his Youtube channel, to which longer instructional material has been more recently uploaded to an ever increasing archive.
You may also find a collection of Tashi’s selected videos for his subscribed ‘community’
If you would like to follow to catch the latest new videos and shorts of technical content and advice offering the occasional pearls of wisdom – Why not follow this link to subscribe Where unlike the transient nature of Instagram, YouTube remains a rich archive of material which can be sort after and drawn upon at any point in time.
Le Grand Banc
From 25 May to 31 May 2025
This spring retreat offers a holistic experience in both body and mind, while cultivating heightened awareness through yoga, deepening meditation and creativity. Held at the inspirational Le Grand Banc – an extraordinary private hamlet, high among the wild Luberon hills of Provence.
This week long retreat is lead by Tashi Dawa and Tashi Mannox – both internationally celebrated for their down-to-earth, humorous teaching expertise, making a complementary team, which informs the importance in taming both body and mind interdependently.
It is with resounding success of the first online Tibetan calligraphy tutorials with Wisdom Academy. The second courses of lessons is also now live to join as a perfect followup.
This will cover the multitude of super and subscribed letters, as well as punctuation marks. – Thus completes the repertoire of the Tibetan writing system in the classical Uchen script.
