Topicmarks Summary of The Art of thangka midwifery

"A thangka painter however, is a facilitator or a midwife rather than an artist in the usual sense of the word. The child delivered by a midwife is not the midwife's own child. So the thangka painter is a visionary midwife. The mother of vision is creative space, so the thangka painter must be aligned with space and the thangka painted from the perspective of space rather than according to limited personal ideas. My motivation in wanting to paint thangkas was founded on the fact that the lineage of which Ngak'chang Rinpoche and I are the current Mind Lineage Holders desperately needed a thangka painter - and one who could train other painters. "

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