Thanka painting workshop with Karma Phuntsok
Create your own Buddha with Karma's assistance. No experience required. Following a simple step by step process you can leave with a finished Buddha, ready to hang on your wall.
Karma Phuntsok was born in Tibet and fled to India with his family after the uprising against the Chinese in 1959. Karma studied Thangka Painting with a master of traditional Tibetan Thangka painting in Nepal. Since that time he has been making paintings based on Tibetan Buddhist deities. Karma now resides in northern NSW.
You can see more of Karma's work on his website:
There is also basic accommodation at a reasonable extra cost.
On the weekend of March 15-17th 2013 we had a residential Thanka painting workshop at Gallery Cosmosis in Byron Bay with Karma Phuntsok as teacher. There were 4 students, including myself and we painted for the whole 3 days. It was a wonderful & happy experience, & all of the students went home with a very nearly finished Buddha, except for me who is painting the more complex White Tara, it being my 4th workshop.
Kharma Phuntsok
Images from the workshop
Below are some of Karma's beautiful Thanka paintings.
Paintings below are unedited, on linen taken from the small exhibition we had during the workshop. Apologies...may get around to editing them later!
