Dakini Heart Essence Refuge Tree

Fine Art High Quality Giclee Print
16" x 21" original size print
100% acid free archival cotton paper with archival inks
Unframed
$150 plus $10 Fed Ex shipping in the continental USA

Glossy digital photgraphic print, $15 (Email to order 8x10)

This is a highly unique sacred art image. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first-ever thangka painting or sacred scroll image of the Dakini Heart Essence Refuge Tree. The Dakini Heart Essence (mkha 'gro thugs thig) is the mind treasure of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche.

Commissioned by Jnanasukha, it was painted under the guidance of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche by Kumar Lama, a master thangka painter and visionary artist who paints in the Mendi and Karma Gadri style. The original is a watercolor wash with 24 karat gold on canvas. Careful attention was given to all the details of symbolic significance.

The central deity is Orgyen Vajradhara in union with Yeshe Tsogyal as the embodiment of all the sources of refuge. Lama Tharchin Rinpoche requested the inclusion of the deities Vajrasattva and Samantabhadra representing the visionary roots of the Dakini Heart Essence and the inclusion of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche and Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche as the lineage teachers. The inclusion of Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was accomplished with his permission and under his iconographic guidance.

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Giclee is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The original was scanned at museum quality and the giclee print is indistinguishable from the the original.

Kumar Lama was born in Yolmo, Nepal, near the Tibetan border. He began studying thangka painting at age 9 and is fluent in both the Mendi and Karma Gadri styles. He has exhibited with the Nepal Art Association and at galleries in Nepal, Switzerland and Munich, Germany. During the mid-80s and in the 90s, he trained painters and did restoration of thankgas and statues in France, Hawaii and California. At the invitation of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Kumar exhibited in several European countries. He completed a Kalachakra mandala for the Ethnographic Museum of Zurich that took one year to paint. At the invitation of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Kumar began painting at the Vajrayana Foundation in 1996. He lives, paints and teaches in the San Francisco Bay area and exhibits traditional and secular works.