Terris Nguyen Temple and Leslie Nguyen Temple - artists trained in Tibetan art-  present traditional and contemporary works in both painted and appliquéd techniques.

Also offered here are: films, iconographic resources and accounts of past and present projects. These include stories related to the unique collaboration between 1992-2007 with the talented team of mostly women sewing masters in Tibet.

The White Conch Factory was one of the original sewing cooperative workshops established after 1959 in Lhasa. Their expertise included making large scale appliqué festival tents, temple hangings and designing and sewing traditional opera costumes. Unfortunately the factory was closed down in 2008.

The two films currently under production:

1.  ‘Tsurphu: the giant appliques’  documents over 25 years of creating large scale applique sacred art for the seat of Karmapa's Lineage in Tibet.   Tsurphu Monastery founded in 1187     

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/187663701 

2. "Thongdrol, liberation through seeing”- Made as a feature film and created with HH’s Karmapa’s support- focuses on the Karma Gadri Painting School - developed within the Karma Kagyu lineage- and the potential of visual art as ‘Liberation through Seeing’

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/106809581 

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/106810622