The film has been released in Wisconsin!
Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas premiered at the Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin on Saturday, September 27.
Visit www.creatingbuddhas.com for a continually updated calendar of screenings.
The Daily Page wrote:
CREATING BUDDHAS: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas
a ?lm by Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost
Creating Buddhas is the unique not-for-pro?t documentary ?lm about Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, a western woman who painstakingly mastered the craft of fabric thangkas, a silk embroidered and appliquEd art form in Tibetan Buddhism. Leslie’s transformation into a Tibetan fabric thangka master began with a voyage to Dharamsala, where she began learning the ancient tradition from two renowned fabric thangka makers. Through her devotion to the culture, she became one of the few western women to have ever mastered this revered art form.
Upcoming Wisconsin Screenings:
Creating Buddhas Premiere Deer Park Buddhist Center, 4548 Schneider Dr. Oregon, WI Sat. Sept. 27th, 8pm
Shambhala Center of Madison, 408 S Baldwin St Madison, WI
Thursday Oct. 2nd, 7:30pm
Mimosa, 260 W Gilman St, Madison, WI Friday Oct 10th, 8pm
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, UW-Madison, location TBA, Sun. Oct 19th, 4pm
Proceeds from the sale of Creating Buddhas will be donated to the Deer Park Buddhist Center’s temple fund in Oregon, WI. Deer Park’s new temple was blessed on July 19th, 2008 by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
