The Knowing Body: Art and the Discovery of the Self

Tibetan Art, Mirror of the Self
Saturday, May 1
10:00 am-12:00 pm.
$20 ($15 Jung Center and Dawn Mountain members) Click here to register.

Tibetan Scroll (Thanka) Painting Workshop
Saturday, May 1: 1:30 - 4 pm
$45 ($40 Jung Center and Dawn Mountain members)
Limit: 25 | Online registration for this event is now closed. Call 713.524.8253 to check on availability and to register.

Meditation & Meaning
Sunday, May 2
11 am - 12:30 pm
Free | Location and RSVP: Dawn Mountain,1925-B Richmond Ave

Reception and Art Show
Sunday, May 2
12:30-2pm
Location and RSVP: Dawn Mountain,1925-B Richmond Ave

Tibetan Art, Mirror of the Self
Saturday, May 1
10:00 am-12:00 pm.
$20 ($15 Jung Center and Dawn Mountain members) | Click here to register.
Location and registration: The Jung Center, 5200 Montrose Blvd.
Encounter traditional Tibetan painting, a spiritual practice for the artist and a way of furthering spiritual opening in others. The symbolism of Tibetan painting is both universal-pointing the way to love and wisdom-and unique, with images going back two millennia.

Artist Ang Tsherin Sherpa will open the ancient world for us, discussing his own evolution as a traditionally-trained Tibetan artist now working in the West and producing contemporary works alongside traditional ones. Scholar Anne Klein will respond by reflecting on the spiritual significance of Tibetan art for
the West.

Tibetan Scroll (Thanka) Painting Workshop
Saturday, May 1: 1:30 - 4 pm
$45 ($40 Jung Center and Dawn Mountain members)
Limit: 25 | Click here to register.
Location and registration: The Jung Center, 5200 Montrose Blvd.
Learn the first steps of this ancient art as Tsherin guides participants in laying out the proportions of the Buddha's face with the traditional grid pattern, a heritage of 2000 years of Thanka painting. The medium for this workshop will be pencil.

Meditation & Meaning
Sunday, May 2
11 am - 12:30 pm
Free
Location and RSVP: Dawn Mountain,1925-B Richmond Ave
Tsherin will reflect on how art infuses meditation and Anne will offer a simple yet profound guided meditation showing how this works in practice.

Reception and Art Show
Sunday, May 2
12:30-2pm
Location and RSVP: Dawn Mountain,1925-B Richmond Ave
Tsherin will have originals and prints available for order or purchase. The artist will sign, explain, and demonstrate his technique.

Ang Tsherin Sherpa was born in 1968 in Kathmandu, Nepal. He started studying Thanka painting at the age of twelve under the skillful guidance of his father, Master Urgen Dorje, a renowned thangka artist from Ngyalam, Tibet. Tsherin came to the US in 1998 and worked as a thangka artist and as an instructor at The Healing Buddha Center in California. He has sold numerous traditional paintings to museums and collectors, and most recently sold four contemporary style paintings to the Rubin Collection in New York.

Anne C. Klein, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University and founding Director of Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, a center for contemplative study and practice, is author of five books, including Meeting the Great Bliss Queen, Unbounded Wholeness with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and the forthcoming Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission. She lectures and leads meditation retreats widely.

You can click here to register for the Saturday morning presentation. Online registration for the Saturday afternoon workshop is now closed. Call 713.524.8253 to check on availability and to register. You can RSVP for all other events by contacting Dawn Mountain at info@dawnmountain.org.