An introduction
Pen meets paper and a bold, black line sweeps over white, as millennia of wisdom follow in its wake. Each brushstroke is imbued with intention, the essence of Buddha-Dharma distilled in ink and paper
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
This series is a collection of small illuminated artworks created over the past few years.
A collection of small calligraphy pieces of richly coloured iconography, illuminating mantras, seed syllables and pearls of wisdom.
Created with a range of highly crafted techniques, such as raised gesso characters in Sanskrit and Tibetan, embossed gold and palladium leaf gilding , on both Bhutanese desho paper and gesso board.
See more A special retreat collaboration between Tashi Mannox and Tashi Dawa
Le Grand Banc
From 19 May to 25 May 2024
This retreat offers a holistic experience in both body and mind, while cultivating heightened awareness through yoga, meditation and creativity. Held at the inspirational Le Grand Banc, an extraordinary private hamlet, high among the wild Luberon hills of Provence.
See more With resounding success of the first online Tibetan calligraphy tutorials with Wisdom Academy. Which covers the 30 letters of the Tibetan alphabet with the four vowel signs.
Plans are afoot to deliver a second courses of lessons covering 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.
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