Bridging the Sacred and the Mundane with Tsherin Sherpa
Tsherin Sherpa is a classically trained Tibetan thangka painter who splits his time between California and Nepal. His paintings combine traditional techniques and contemporary subject matter, reimagining Tibetan Buddhist iconography in the context of the diaspora. He currently has an exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art called “Divine Disruption.”
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Sherpa to talk about what led him to train as a thangka painter at the age of 12, a fateful encounter with Jamba Juice that opened up a new direction in…
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