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
Lekdanling London
From 09 May to 10 May 2026
The Dzogchen Community UK welcomes back Tashi Mannox for another weekend workshop at the Shang Shung Institute in London.
This calligraphy workshop is especially informative for fellow Tibetan Buddhists for clarity of their visualisation practices. By learning how to form the stage by stage proportionate construction of sacred syllables, in beautiful harmonious calligraphy and in the sound quality of mantra, is a valuable aid for Mahayana and Vajrayana practitioners.
No prior Tibetan calligraphy skills are needed to attend this workshop, but for those already practiced in this scriptural art, my find the workshop elevating.
The workshop concludes with a calligraphy demonstration in explanation of the essential meditational approach to creativity within the field of Dharma art.
For more information and list of recommended materials and writing implements are shared in the enrolment link directly below.
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Tashi is pleased to announce the launch of a solo retrospective exhibition of Tibetan calligraphic artworks – at the brand new shop and gallery Pandas Paper Boutique.
H.H. 16th Gyalwa Karmapa
Tashi’s father, Peter Mannox, worked as chief photographer for the then Karma Kagyu Trust from the early 70’s into the 90’s from which Peter amounted a large body of extraordinary photographs of some of the greatest Tibetan Lamas at that time.
