Tulku Jamyang

Adam and Steve，2016
Incense burned rice paper, acrylic and over laid on another paper
17 x 27 inches (43.2 x 68.6 cm)

EXHIBITED
Ohio, The Frank Museum of Art, "Between Us: Relationship and Identity in Tibetan Contemporary Art", January 25 - April 22, 2017.

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang
"This is regarding gay comunity in general that is now in Tibetan community. It also refers to all LGBT community. It is an awareness about the present situation in our community that it is just a matter of honest individual choice. On the back, there are tibetan alphabets that refers to the tibetan community."

Adam and Steve (on Wheel), 2016
Incense burned rice paper, acrylic and over laid on another paper
17 x 27 inches (43.2 x 68.6 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Playful deity has the gay flag colors referring to the gay community, and the flag itself is on the background. Thre wheel refers to the wheel of time which means the change of time and an evolution."

"Between Us: Relationship and Identity in Tibetan Contemporary Art," The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Ohio, January 25 - April 22, 2017

Adam and Steve (Happy Together), 2016
Incense burned rice paper, acrylic and over laid on another paper
17 x 27 inches (43.2 x 68.6 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"There are tibetan alphabets in different colors on the back. All of the colors behind the wrathful diety has the gay rainbow flag colors denoting the gay community."

"Between Us: Relationship and Identity in Tibetan Contemporary Art," The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Ohio, January 25 - April 22, 2017

Last Supper (Reboot), 2016
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 
17 x 40 3/4 inches (43 x 101 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"The portraits shows that there is a good relation between China and Tibet and all Tibetans are having the last supper in refuge camps a night earlier before going back home. This is the demarcation of being refuge and non refuge. The picture shows younger generations because most of the early generations that flee from Tibet have passed away. So the new generation is going back home."

"Last Supper (Reboot) was inspired from the da Vinci's Last Supper. It is a fiction of having a last supper before going back home after a good relationship between China and Tibet. Da Vinci's Last Supper has the demarcation of trust and mistrust, unity to broken relationship whereas this is a demarcation of broken relationship to unity. da Vinci Last Supper depicts negative at the end whereas my last supper depicts positive at the end."

"Between Us: Relationship and Identity in Tibetan Contemporary Art," The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Ohio, January 25 - April 22, 2017

Duchamp Now in Tibet (New Generation), 2016
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 
14 x 17 inches (35.5 x 43.2 cm)
 

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Duchamp's 'Fountain' is a great symbol of a deep meaning and creative aspect. Hence Duchamp's urinal being in Tibet now means creativeness in different fields such as medicine, science and techonologies that are now in Tibet."

"Between Us: Relationship and Identity in Tibetan Contemporary Art," The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Ohio, January 25 - April 22, 2017
 

F3, 2016
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic color from the back
12 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (31.5 x 36 cm) 

The dragon is flexible, carries fire and travels fast. It refers to our innate nature of awakening, which is flexible in any conditions. The element of fire symbolizes wisdom that burns ignorance and transmits light. Eventually, it takes any decisions with great speed when one contains the flecibility and the fire of wisdom.  

My Goal, 2016
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic color beneath
19 x 17 inches approx (48.3 x 43.2 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang
"This is an expression of my own spiritual goal to achieve the enlightened body, speech and mind that is written in Tibetan letter: Ku, Sung, and Thug. Ku means enlightened body, Sung means enlightened speech and Thug means enlightened mind.”

Dancing Letters, 2016
Incense burned rice paper and acrylic color beneath
19 x 17 inches approx (48.3 x 43.2 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang
"Dancing letters refers to the movement of our Tibetan language from one place to another and merging with diverse languages."

Om Ah Hum ( Sacred Body, Speech and Mind), 2016
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic
26 x 17 inches (66 x 43.2 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Om is the seed mantra of the body, Ah is the seed mantra of Speech and finally Hum is the seed mantra of Mind. In general, Om, ah, and hum means the awakened body, speech or mind."

Manimal, 2016
Rice burned paper with acrylic
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 66 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"This is related to the nature, environments and human relation. It has the 12 Zodiac signs in the Human body, which denotes that human and animals are interdependent to one another, so are the plants. It is to bring awareness to humans that we need to take care of nature and environments in order to protect ourselves. So the title Manimal is trying to say that Man itself is the Animal."

Intimate, 2016
Rice burned paper with acrylic
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 66 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"This is also related to the nature, environments and human relationships. It has twelve Zodiac signs in the human body, which denotes that human and animals are interdependent to one another, so are the plants. The idea is to bring awareness to humans that we need to take care of nature and environments in order to protect ourselves. So the title Intimate is trying to express that intimate relationships of human with animals and nature."

Bodhi Eyes, 2015
Acrylic and incense burned rice paper
10 x 25 inches (25.4 x 63.5 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"The Bodhi eyes refers to the enlightened eyes or the eyes of purity. When one is enlightened or becomes pure he or she starts seeing everything pure, beautiful, and colorful."

My Language, 2015
Incense burned rice paper and acrylic color from underneath, two paper sandwiched
18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"This artwork has the first and last alphabet and all the four vowels. It brings an awareness of preserving our Tibetan language that is vanishing."

Happiness Within, 2015
Incense burned on rice paper
17 x 26 inches (43.2 x 66 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"In the materialistic world we think that happiness comes from external objects, but in reality happiness is something related to mind and if one knows how to be happy from within then even with less material gain one can become happy."

Prayers, 2015
Incense burned on rice paper
20 x 18 inches (50.8 x 45.7 cm) approx.

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"The prayers depicts peaceful and enlightened worlds, and the old lady represents two aspects from the prayers. The first is a lady that represents motherly quality and mental strength. The second is oldness that signifies a long period of time. When both aspects are combined together, it means to have concern for others or the compassion to pray for world peace for a long time."

Maha Mutra (Great Piss), 2015
Acrylic on incense burned rice paper
18 x 36 inches (45.7 x 91.4 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Duchamp's urinal, Fountain, is a revolution in the modernist period, and the Buddha's Three Times Teaching is also revolutionry. Maha Mutra also includes the aspect of the evolution. I personally relate my piece to Duchamp's piece and see both unique revolutions in our own perspectives."

Mind Nature, 2015
Acrylic color and rice paper burned with incense
18 x 18 inches (45.7 x 45.7 cm)

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"All the sentient being's minds are very complex but they are pure and colorful in reality, never dark and impure."

Where are we going?, 2015
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic paint paper laid underneath
17x 26 inches (43.2 x 66 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Above is the Tibetan alphabet rounded and scattered. This is a question for our Tibetan brothers and sisters. Here I am asking to look where we are going in terms of our language preservation which is the key factor of our culture. All the Tibetan language in our community is  scattered and mixed up with other languages."

All Shattered, 2015
Incense burned rice paper and acrylic color paper laid underneath
17x17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"The Tibetan Alphabets are all shattered to show reflect the present situation of losing our language in our community."

Kewa Tulku (Incarnation), 2015
Incense burned rice paper and acrylic paint
17x17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 inches ) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"In Tibetan, Kewa means birth and Tulku means incarnation. Since I am a reincarnated lama, it is mainly an expression of myself and also the Buddhist conpect of rebirth. The jigsaw puzzles are the expressions of different aspects and challenges of life which are always different with one another."

Refuge, 2015
Incense burned and acrylic color
26 x 17 inches (66 x 43.2 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Refuge denotes the concept of reliance and acceptance. In ancient time we used to rely on the Gods, Budhha or so forth. In present time we rely on smart phones, computers and iPads. The Apple company logo symbolizes electronic devices and Buddha symbolizes the ancient religious faith of reliance. Nowadays, it is the electronic devise in which we rely on or take refuge to."

Auspicious Prayers, 2015
Incense burned rice paper
26 x 17 inches (66 x 43.2 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"In 2015, a major earthquake took place in Nepal and other parts of the country, therefore this artwork of eight auspicious symbols has been created as a prayer to the victims of earthquake to have auspicious incidents in world."

Eight Spokes, 2015
Incense burned rice paper and acrylic paint paper underneath
18 x 18 inches (45.7 x 45.7 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Eight spokes are symbols of eightfold practice that is able to make us overcome many challenges of life once it is applied in everyday life. The colorful background corresponds to different challenges in life. The wheel refers to life, and the eight spokes of practice makes the wheel roll smoothly. The eightfold practices are: positive view, positive thought, positive speech, positive action, positive livelihood, positive effort, positive awareness and positive meditation."    

Harmony, 2014
Acrylic paint from below and over lapped by incense burned rice paper
18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm) approx.

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"It is an expression of living in harmony. The dragon head represents Chinese and the Tibetans are symbolized as snow lion."

ABCDE (Any body can deserve Enlightenment), 2014
Acrylic paint with incense burned rice paper
36 x 66 inches (91.4 x 167.6 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang
"It refers to everyone who has potential to become Buddha despite race, gender, celibate monk or lay people."

"One side has the lay people and other side has the Celebate monk body. it doesn't recommend any deities but it is showing the lay people community and the celebate monk body... The centre image of lay person in the other side of the main monk is a woman not men.  Above the center lady there are different color lay person denoting the brown, yellow and white people or different races. All can get enlightened. Enlightenment means  expansion of our wisdom and growth of seeing things in deeper and broader way. therefore it doesn't mean that only the monks will get enlightened first and lay people later... this is how people usually think but that's not true. This is all I wanted to say.

ABCDE is the short form of Any Body Can Deserve Enlightenment despite gender, color or creed. Inspiration for this artwork comes from my own spiritual practice to express on the general people's view on heirarchy systems."

Unclouded Mind, 2014
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic paint
17x 17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Unclouded mind refers to the pure mind which we all possess but due to ignorance and negativities it is clouded. Once the negativities are eliminated the unclouded beautiful mind will appear."

Pure Land Buddha, 2014
Incense burned rice paper and acrylic paint paper underneath
17 x 17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Pure land Buddha is an inspiration to be pure in heart. And having purity means having light in life. Therefore the Amitabha means Infinite light where there in no trace of impurity and darkness."

Tribute to Andy, 2013
Incense burned on rice paper
18 x 18 inches (45. 7 x 45. 7 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"I was always moved with his Pop art culture and his innovativeness. Above all, he taught the world that artist DO NOT have to be living in misery like many previous artist including Van Gogh. They can be creative and also can live better lives. Because of these reasons I thought of paying Tribute and Respect to this Great man and his revolutionary actions."

Human, 2013
Incense burned rice paper
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Most Tibetan people have negative perspective towards Chairman Mao but over a billion people have positive perspective towards him and take him as Father of the Nation. Generally speaking, human has both positive and negative sides; therefore we are in this mundane world, if we were perfect and 100 percent pure then we would have become Buddhas and might have been living in pure heaven. Therefore, I express here to see things more positively to different aspects life."

Evolving, 2013
Incense burned rice paper
15x 38 inches (38.1 x 96.5 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"It refers to the Buddha nature ( Awakening mind) in all of us and which can evolve through the positive actions."
 

Om Mani Pedmey Hum, 2013
Incense burned rice paper and acrylic colored paper laid below
10 x 24 inches (25.4 x 61 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Om mani pedme hum is a mantra which by chanting creates a vibration throughout subtle energy channel (Nadis in Sanskrit) and therefore creates blissfulness for self and compassionate for others."

Maitriya (Love), 2013
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic paint paper laid underneath
25 x 16 (63.5 x 40.6 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"Maitriya Buddha is the future Buddha. Literally Maitriya means Love. Here the Maitriya Buddha is a personification of Love energy from where the Harmony generates in individual level, family level, social level, national level and global level."

Gateway to Heaven, 2013
Incense burned rice paper
18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"When an individual lives positively then naturally the Gateway of Heaven opens. The symbol of closed door refers to our closed heart which needs to be open then naturally we are positive and gateway of Heaven opens. Here heaven doesn't mean external heaven but rather the internal happiness and peace of oneself."

Illusion, 2013
Incense burned rice paper with acrylic colored canvas underneath
10 x 20 inches (25.4 x 50.8 cm) approx

Quotes - Tulku Jamyang

"There are skulls and fire which denotes the dying and the upper layer which covers the skull and fire is a symbol of unclearity. From subtle level, our physical body cell is dying and recreating every moment. But from gross level, we feel that we are never changing and pretend as if we are permanent which is an illusion."

MOMO (Memory Of My Own), 2017 

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 

23 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches (60 x 44.5cm) 

Frogs Coming out of the Well, 2017 

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 

24 x 17 inches (61 x 43 cm) 

Monlam (Prayers), 2015 

Incense burned rice paper with acryilc 

17 x 26 inches (43 x 66 cm) 

Aspects of Life, 2017

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 

21 x 16 1/2 inches (53 x 42 cm) 

Begging Bowl (Readymade), 2017

Acrylic on iron

8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm) 

Fading Away, 2016

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 

26 x 37 inches (66 x 94 cm) 

Fountain Mountain, 2016

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic

16 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (42 x 52 cm)

Purification, 2016

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 

47 x 38 inches (119 x 96.5 cm) 

Tashi Delek (100 Years Celebration), 2016

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic 

26 x 37 inches (66 x 94 cm) 

Wangmo'w Mother, 2016

Incense burned rice paper with acrylic

17 x 21 inches (43 x 52 cm)

Deep and Unknown 01, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

23 5/8 x 15 1/6 inches (60 x 38.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 02, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

11 3/5 x 27 9/10 inches (29.5 x 68.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 03, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

29 x 19 inches (73.5 x 48 cm)

Deep and Unknown 04, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

25 x 19 1/2 inches (63 x 50 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 05, 2014

Incese burned rice paper with acrylic 

25 x 17 1/3 inches (64 x 44 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 06, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

28 1/2 x 18 1/2  inches (72 x 47 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 07, 2014

Incese burned rice paper with acrylic 

19 1/3 x 20 1/2 inches (49 x 52 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 08, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

23 1/2 x 18 inches (59.5 x 45.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 09, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (60 x 50 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 10, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

20 2/3 x 18 1/2 inches (52.5 x 47 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 11, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

19 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (49.5 x 54.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 12, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

29 x 18 1/2 inches (74 x 46.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 14, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

24 1/2 x 18 inches (62 x 46 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 15, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

20 x 17 1/2 inches (50.5 x 44.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 16, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

27 x 18 1/2 inches (69 x 47.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 17, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

18 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches (47 x 67 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 18, 2014

Incese burned rice paper

20 x 18 inches (51 x 45 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 19, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

22 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (59.5 x 47 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 20, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

26 1/4 x 19 inches (66.5 x 48.5 cm) 

Deep and Unknown 21, 2014

Incese burned rice paper 

24 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (62 x 42 cm) 

Untitled, 2017

Incense burned and acrylic color

15x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm)

Stop (Kag in tibetan), 2017

Incense burned rice paper and acrylic color beneath

16 x 25 inches (40.6 x 63.5 cm)