Portfolio
Select originals available for purchase. Other works were produced on commission.
Fine art print reproductions of most works can be purchased by clicking the link on each artwork’s page.
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Chenrezig
**ORIGINAL AVAILABLE** Chenresig (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit) is the embodiment of all the buddhas’ infinite compassion. He is the patron deity of Tibet, watching...
Buddha and the Six Supports
**ORIGINAL AVAILABLE FOR LOAN** In this hand-stitched silk appliqué thangka, Buddha Shakyamuni (the historical Buddha) sits on a jeweled throne, supported by snow lions representing...
Three Mongolians
**ORIGINAL AVAILABLE** Nontraditional piece based on a photograph of three Mongolians conversing. Hand-stitched with the same traditional techniques used for the sacred images,...
Nomad Girls
**ORIGINAL AVAILABLE** Nontraditional piece based on a photograph by Diane Barker. The figures of two Tibetan girls returning from a pilgrimage are hand-stitched with traditional Tibetan...
Green Tara
Green Tara, the female manifestation of active compassion, reaches out her hand to grant all wishes and, with her right foot outstretched, is...
White Tara
White Tara, like her sister Green Tara, arose from the compassionate tears of Chenrezig and, as the embodiment of enlightened activity, is...
Saraswati
Saraswati, the melodious lady, was originally a Hindu deity accepted into the Vajrayana Buddhist pantheon. She is the goddess of culture, learning,...
Beauty
Traditionally pieced Tibetan landscape in silk satins with quilted cotton borders. These new works by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo bridge traditional and contemporary, East and West. The...
Lotus
The immaculate lotus grows in muddy swamps just as an enlightened being arises from the contaminated world, unstained by its pollutants. In...
Padmapani
Among the many forms of Avalokiteshvara, this two-armed, single-faced form called Padmapani is probably the oldest. Avalokiteshvara is the embodiment of all the buddhas’...
Machig Labdron
A mother herself and inspired by the Great Mother, Perfection of Wisdom, Machig Labdron lived in Tibet in the 11th and 12th centuries....
Pool of Light
Nontraditional piece based on a photograph by Diane Barker. The figures of a nomadic mother and child in a tent in eastern...
Medicine Buddha
The Medicine Buddha is revered as the source of the healing arts in Tibet. Tibetan Medicine holds that the fundamental cause of every disease...
Lotus
The Lotus flower is a fount of creation, source of possibilities. In Buddhist art, enlightened beings sit or stand on lotuses. When...
Manjushri
Manjushri is the embodiment of all the buddhas’ wisdom. His flaming double-edged sword cuts through layers of misconception to discriminate clearly between the independent...
Green Tara
Green Tara, the female manifestation of active compassion, reaches out her hand to grant all wishes and, with her right foot outstretched, is ready...
Guru Rinpoche
Padmasambhava, the lotus-born, known in Tibetan as Guru Rinpoche, was invited from India to Tibet in the 8th century AD to assist in the...
Buddha Shakyamuni
Buddha Shakyamuni, who lived in India 2500 years ago, taught the path to enlightenment based on his own experience of having achieved complete liberation...
