Kunzang Choden, one of Bhutan’s most well-known authors, brings us on a tour of her ancestral home in Bhumtang’s Tang Valley, which was turned into museum. This space offers a first-hand view of daily life for Bhutanese religious nobility...
~ Kunzang Choden is one of Bhutan’s most legendary authors. We meet in Bhutan in the Tang Valley, where Kunzang’s family has lived since the 15th century, land that is tied to the Tibetan yogic master Longchenpa and treasure revealer Dorji Linga. This is...
Today’s episode takes place at the Tibetan Handicraft Society in McCleoud Ganj, in northern India. This Handicraft Society was founded in 1963 to support Tibetan refugees, and Tibetans who have grown up in exile and Tibetan arts and culture. Today...
~ Today we meet at the Tibetan Medical & Astro Institute Museum and receive a brief tour from Dr. Kalsang Youdon and Kelsang Chodon. Time notes: 00:00:46 Tibetan medicines and instruments 00:06:17 Tibetan medicine paintings 00:09:16 History of the re-established...
Listen: ~ Today we meet at the headquarters of Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala, India with Dr. Tsering Norbu, who has worked here for over 30 years and is the director of both Culture and Materia Medica. 00:01:00 Dr. Tsering’s medicine heritage and path...
Tenzin Norbu was born in Dolpo, Nepal, into a family of thangka painters with a lineage of atleast 5 generations. His work has appeared in museums and private collections around the world, as well as, several international publications, including Caravans of...