Work in a Monastery part 2

Although slightly delayed, I still wanted to share some more pictures of the various activity's taking place in Orgyan Tobgyal Rinpoche's Monastery in Bir.

Here OT is overseeing the painters working on one of the three main Buddha statues in the main shrine hall. Next to him sits the main painter, who is also the teacher of all the other painters.

One newly arrived painter working on the top ornaments:

Scaffolds around one of the three Buddha's in the main temple:

Leaving the temple, we take a visit to OT's house which has a shrine particularly dedicated to Chime Phakme Nyingtik. Here an artist is working on the detailed decorations:

Artist working on a Statue:

In the shrine are all the deities of the CPN practice and the lineage masters. The artists worked very hard to get everything done before Losar, and this is the result:

But that's not all. Here a monk is purifying gold, in order to to decorate an old sword, which belonged to some famous Tibetan warrior, the name of which I can't remember. While purifying the gold was grey colored but somehow it turning into gold later on. The Khampa's at OT's monastery really enjoyed playing around with the sword, so you had to be a bit careful :)


Part 1 can be found here