Artist Interview-Tenzing Rigdol Commission-Mandalas | Met Exhibitions

Go behind the scenes with artist Tenzing Rigdol as he discusses his installation, Biography of a Thought, for the exhibition Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet, on view through January 12, 2025.
Learn more about the exhibition: www.metmuseum....
Production credits:
Director and Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Editor: Lucas Groth
Producer: Melissa Bell
Production Coordinator: Lela Jenkins
Production Assistant: Malvika Dang
Director of Photography: Jeffrey Johnson
Jib Camera: Kelly Richardson
Additional camera: Lucas Groth
Time Lapse Photograhy: Wilson Santiago, Heather Johnson, Jesse Ng
Sound Recording: Matt Modula
Original Music: Austin Fisher
Special thanks to: Curator Kurt Behrendt, Tenzing Rigdol, Khando Rigdol, Ross Bernhaut, Stephanie Kwai, Alison Clark, Aislinn Hyde, Quinn Corte, The Met Installation and Design Teams, Rebecca McGinnis, Emily Harr, and the FMDG Music School group.
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[@tibkailash]

He is pride of Tibetans. Very simple and down to earth. Thank you Rigdol for amazing jobs.

[@dolmatsering3872]

Absolutely!💯

[@tenzintsering7483]

Thank you The Met for hosting and giving huge platform to Tibetan Buddhist Art. Great job Rangdol🎉

[@jefflambson6840]

Congratulations Rigdol and Kurt. Your paintings are powerful and moving. Anyone experiencing your art can have their life changed. Badha'i dina!

[@JohnHarrisonArtist]

Wonderful thoughtful artwork, and it was great to hear him talk us through it.

[@rickgelb2213]

I would love to meet this man and talk with him for days. He is amazing!

[@PemaDolma]

Had the pleasure of seeing him create live art in toronto years ago. Honoured to have met someone with such talent!

[@patduffyforever]

Amazing insight. And such beautiful art. The colours and forms and what they depict are just stunningly beautiful. I love it.🙏💚wow.

[@Health-Through-Balance]

His philosophy runs deep, and the narrative behind his art is incredibly calming. I really admire this man.

[@Nidol]

Great to see Tibetan artists in Met.❤❤❤

[@tamdinbradley3822]

Many congratulations on your amazing creations and they are so relevant for this current time! You have done the Cholkha Tsum proud! All the best !

[@kungaRangrig]

It’s a proud moment for all the Tibetans and Himalayan people. He is one of the prides. Great artist/personality.

[@dolmatsering3872]

Rigdol La khamsang! 🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐❤️❤️❤️ Thank You So Much. I am extremely Proud of You. Your Art Work Is breathtakingly beautiful With Profound and deep Messages. It is So Captivating! It is like You be there, Sit and Meditate.👏👏👏☀️☀️☀️🥰🥰🥰

[@Tzchoedak]

Spectacular work.. Please carry on Rangdol la.. Free Tibet

[@milanthapamagar9]

This is an honour to our current generation. I m beautifully speechless ❤

[@saradisondhya7707]

"Now is the time to limit your thoughts".. Everything is deep n so knowledge based, yet vibrant, colurful and soulful.. Pure Art ❤

[@barbarahutchins9267]

This is fabulous! So many layers to contemplate and appreciate. Thank you! Beautiful.

[@pratimabasnet1398]

mesmerized by the beauty this man has created. Just wondrous.

[@rangzenlhamo]

Absolutely brilliant work by dear Rigdol La!!!

[@Yam_ze]

Ancient philosophies represent in a very contemporary way! Just beautiful 😍

[@Yurupon]

Hi Rigdol, Topden here. You have done it, guru. This is epic - really the Mandala of our Time. Booking a flight pronto to see in person your exquisitely curated art and be left breathless.

[@tenzing.t.430]

Its like a fresh flower blooming......its a visual treat...🎉🎉🎉

[@Tenzin.K837]

Wow great work. Proud Tibetan!!!

[@ohprudence]

This is beautiful and gives me a lot to think about. Thanks!

[@moniquelafontaine_art_cosmos]

This is sublime… absolutely wonderful 🩵💙🌊🌈♥️❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙

[@SonamYangchen-ll9bn]

literal goosebumps. phenomenal work.

[@agar15]

Wow! Mind blowing work of art, you are truly a pride of Tibet & Tibetans. You are truly an exceptional artist, very inspiring to all those who love arts and Buddhist logics. Wow!

[@TseringYangzom-ni9hi]

Beautiful works with more beautiful words… Very impressive work.

[@r-cdmx]

Absolutely marvelous. 👏🏽✨

[@JeffreyKahnartist]

This is absolutely wonderful!❤

[@mukeshshrestha2455]

AMAZING
congratulations

[@KateColors]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@kungachoezin14]

Top top g ❤
Thoroughly love it

[@_quique72]

Wonderful 😊

[@tuanvu8823]

Beautiful old soul ❤

[@rapture8233]

This is so beautiful ❤️

[@shivalik-c1x]

A friend of mine had some similar vision of your arts after taking Phyllomedusa bicolor ( hallucinogen, giant monkey frog secretion from amazon) in a native ceremony in Maui. I love the intent, your motivation and the concept behind and I think I have fascinating ideas or artistic zest to share if we ever meet.

[@Phuntsokyoga]

Like the Mandala art 😇🙏

[@LemonOne]

Great paintings! 💯

[@pemaramrolagxahyolmo9116]

Great job chojo tenjin rigdol la

[@Sonam-nd5vy]

Beautiful 😻

[@reybeloart]

😍

[@ngawanggyatso5430]

Nice work Rigdol la

[@ZINDAGIMARVEL]

U woke me! 🙏

[@deckyidolma9938]

majestic

[@TYD98]

Less thoughts and more love 💕

[@tsheringudeb6821]

Amazing lhaa

[@chrislove4851]

❤

[@NobleTenz]

🙏

[@rangzenla]

🙏🏼

[@rinchentsering8376]

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་༧རང་གྲོལ་ལགས་ང་ཁྱེད་རང་གིས་རི་མོ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ད་དུང་ཡང་མི་མཐུད་ནས་འཛམ་གླིང་ལ་བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་རྩལ་རི་མོ་དག་མང་སུ་བཤབས་རོགས་གནང་།🙏🏻✌🏻👍

[@shramdippurkoti13]

🙏🙏🙏

[@tabuena.fineart]

Surrealism with a twist

[@tbtngrl9642]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@shonuDhamey]

Interestingly manifested allegory.

[@JJONNYREPP]

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[@chefearther7288]

this is great expression not interpretations.

[@rabtenangag9331]

བོད་པའི་ཞབས་འདྲེན་མཁན་རེད་དཱ

[@tenzing.t.430]

༄། །ཁོང་ནི་བོད་རིགས་ཀྱི་སྤོབས་པ་སྐྱེ་འོས་པའི་ཧ་ཅང་གི་མི་བཟང་པོ་ཞིག་རེད། རང་ཉིད་རྨོངས་པའི་དབང་གི་མ་རིག་ན་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཨ།