Art and meditation: learning to visualise the symbols of NgalSo Self-Healing by drawing them

Art and meditation: learning to visualise the symbols of NgalSo Self-Healing by drawing them

Saturday and Sunday 

from 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm

A first weekend during which, following the path of Lama Gangchen Rinpoche’s NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, we will draw the mandalas of the five elements at our five chakras. On subsequent weekends we will learn to draw the five lotus flowers, and then the seed syllables and symbols of the five families of the Dyani Buddhas, the Supreme Healers.

The course is open to all and requires no training in the art of drawing.

Children over the age of 5 are also welcome.

Students who have already attended Duccio’s courses are welcome. It will be the teacher’s responsibility to follow each one according to the level they have reached.

Materials to bring with you:

• An A4 album with semi-roughened sheets
• Coloured pencils (green, yellow, blue, red, white)
• A square and a ruler
• A compass

Limited number of participants, booking required by 10th October.

Leonardo ‘Duccio’ Ceglie

He attended art school and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and met Lama Gangchen Rinpoche in 1984 at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Pomaia.

A Tibetan friend, Pempa Tsering, advised him to try painting a small Buddha Cenresig and to make a gift of it to Lama Gangchen. The Lama immediately commissioned him to paint another Buddha and then another and another. Over the years he became his disciple and continued to paint Tibetan tangkas following his instructions. He accompanied the Lama on many pilgrimages to the Buddha’s main holy places and to the great monasteries, taking his canvases and paints with him and thus deepening his knowledge of Tibetan sacred painting.