Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas

by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo (Actor), Robert Thurman (Actor), Glenn Mullin (Actor)

DVD

Published September 23, 2008

About the author

Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is a textile artist, teacher, and author of Threads of Awakening: An American Woman’s Journey into Tibet’s Sacred Textile Art. A California girl who bought a one-way ticket to India and landed in a Tibetan sewing workshop next door to the Dalai Lama, she became one of few non-Tibetans to master the Buddhist art of silk appliqué thangka.

Rinchen-Wongmo learned to stitch bits of silk into elaborate figurative mosaics that bring the transformative images of Buddhist meditation to life. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and featured in the documentary, Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas. She teaches women around the globe through her Stitching Buddhas Virtual Apprentice Program, an online hands-on course bridging East and West, traditional and contemporary.

After two decades abroad, Leslie returned to southern California where she now lives with three cats and enough fabric to last several lifetimes, but never enough for the next project.

Learn more at https://threadsofawakening.com.