Tashi Mannox is a name representative of both Eastern and Western artistic disciplines.
The latter, Mannox, originates in Celtic Ireland and translates as ‘the monastic’. The former, Tashi, was gifted to him upon ordainment as a Buddhist monk of the Tibetan Kagyu order.
Having recently graduated with a BA [Hons] degree in Fine Art, and at the age of 22, he committed to his monastic journey. For the next seventeen-years as a monk Tashi apprenticed under the direction of a master of Tibetan art, Sherab Palden Beru. Part of his training was in the elaborate art of temple decoration, which is the traditional hub for the Tibetan arts and its deep symbolism.
During his time in the monastery, Tashi entered a four-year Buddhist retreat, where he worked as a scribe meticulously copying ancient Tibetan manuscripts. This highly disciplined training laid a firm foundation in the multiple forms of Tibetan calligraphy.
In the latter years as a monk, Tashi traveled to North India where he was privileged to study under a master of ancient Sanskrit, Lama Pema Lodrup, one of the last Tibetan masters of the rare Lantsha and Wartu Sanskrit forms.
Since laying down his monastic robes in 2000, Tashi has built on his disciplined training and spiritual awareness, formed through years of practicing meditation and Buddhist philosophy, to produce a collection of iconographic masterpieces that reveal powerful, sacred themes through the majestic images of Tibetan Buddhist iconography.
At its foundation, Tashi’s artwork is a vehicle to communicate and transmit Dharma, whilst adapting and updating his approach within and for a contemporary context, it is Dharma Art. His practice also serves to preserve the Tibetan language and the multiple traditional script styles therein.
He is now recognized as one of the world’s foremost contemporary Tibetan calligraphy artists, teaching and exhibiting internationally, such as London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Bhutan and Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates.
In this episode we discuss:
-Growing up in an artistic household
-Being inspired by Tibetan Buddhist monks
-Becoming a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
-Studying traditional Tibetan art forms with a master
-Learning the proper form in order to move beyond the form
-Expressing the dharma through creativity
-Art as a contemplative/meditative practice
-Sacred proportions in art
-Enlightened Minds creating sacred art
-Creating from a place of stillness to keep the ego out your work
-The importance of space
Links
www.tashimannox.com
store.tashimannox.com
On Instagram @tashimannox
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