ARTISTS
Tenzin Wangchuk

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Tibet, Wangchuk escaped to India when he was a
child, but then completed his primary education at the Tibetan
Children's Village school in Dharamsala, India. In 1987 he joined
Namgyal Monastery and studied the memorization of different
meditation deity texts. For five years he learned the sacred Tibetan
arts of butter sculpture, mandala drawing, ritual instruments and
dances. In 2004 Tenzin Wangchuk completed his 13-year
philosophical studies, earning the degree of Master of Buddhist
Sutra and Tantra. Wangchuk has traveled throughout the US and
Europe performing sand mandalas and ritual dances. He has served
in the ritual offering activities of many empowerments given by His
Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has served as: A member on the Board
of Directors at the parent Namgyal Monastery Dharamsala, India;
Manager of the Namgyal Monastery branch located in Bodhgaya,
India; and he served as the first board member from the parent
Monastery to simultaneously serve as a member of the Board of
Directors at the Namgyal Monastery, Ithaca branch.
In the year 2007 alone Tenzin Wangchuk created
five Chenrizig Sand Mandalas (the Bodhisatva of Compassion) at
Clemson University, South Carolina, The College of New Jersey,
NJ ; Community Art Center, Everett WA., and Sudbury Lincoln
High school, MA. He has lectured extensively about the sacred arts
of Tibet and conducted a workshop on Tibetan Calligraphic arts at
the Brookfield craft center CT, the Garde art center CT, and La
Grua center CT. He also taught the Tibetan art, calligraphy and
culture at ISSAC school New London, CT.
Creating a sand mandala, one grain of sand at a time,
building up the forms, has taught Tenzin Wangchuk the elements of
design and the power of an image. Having left the Namgyal
monastery, his goal is now to transform the sacred arts into a more
concrete form. The images of the mandala, the auspicious symbols and
their elements will be first visualized in pastel and then in sand. He
has developed a process whereby the sand image can be made

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