Lumbini Buddhist Art Gallery, Berkeley California

09/26/2026

Lumbini Thangka Gallery – Anil Thapa
Preserving Sacred Art • Inspiring the Heart • Sharing Himalayan Wisdom
Lumbini Thangka Gallery, founded and guided by Anil Thapa, is a place where sacred Buddhist art, Himalayan culture, and spiritual wisdom come together.
With more than two decades of experience in Thangka art, the gallery is dedicated to preserving the ancient tradition of Tibetan Buddhist painting while making its beauty, symbolism, and spiritual meaning accessible to people from around the world.
Each Thangka is more than a painting. It is a visual expression of Buddhist philosophy—a meeting point between art, meditation, devotion, and the human journey toward wisdom and compassion

09/19/2026

09/10/2026

There is no need for any middle person to get the blessing and to connect god within you.
If anyone saying you need to worship the middle man or women before you know about god or higher consciousness that means you are falling in trap.
When the heart opens you connect directly to pure light.
Blessing and Love
🙏🙏🙏

09/06/2026

Vajrayogini Thangka
Size : 12x16 inch

Vajrayogini is a powerful female deity in Ta***ic (Vajrayana) Buddhism, especially revered in Tibetan traditions. She represents the ultimate wisdom of enlightenment, particularly the realization of emptiness (śūnyatā) combined with great bliss.

Who is Vajrayogini?
Vajrayogini is often described as a dakini—a sky-dancer or female embodiment of enlightened energy. She is one of the most important meditational deities (yidams) in Vajrayana practice.

She is particularly central in lineages like:
the Kagyu
the Sakya
and certain traditions within the Gelug

🔥 Symbolism and Appearance
Vajrayogini’s imagery is vivid and symbolic:
Red body → passion transformed into wisdom
Dancing posture → freedom from ignorance and ego
Skull cup (kapala) → transformation of death into awareness
Curved knife (kartika) → cutting through illusion
Third eye → transcendent insight

She is often shown standing on a co**se, symbolizing the overcoming of the ego.

🧘 Spiritual Meaning
Practicing Vajrayogini meditation is considered a direct path to enlightenment. Her practice focuses on:
transforming desire into wisdom
realizing the emptiness of all phenomena
achieving a state of bliss and clarity simultaneously
In advanced Ta**ra, she is linked to subtle body practices involving inner energy channels (nadis) and vital winds (prana).

📿 Why She Matters
Vajrayogini is sometimes called the “supreme yoga ta**ra deity” because her practices are said to be especially effective in the current age—direct, profound, and relatively swift compared to other paths.

09/02/2026

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha
ॐ तारे तुत्तारे तुरे श्वाहा 🌸🌸🌸
Green Tara mantra

Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā / Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha. Tara, whose name means “star” or “she who ferries across,” is a Bodhisattva of compassion who manifests in female form. In Tibetan, Tara is known as “Dölma” (Sgrol-ma), or “She Who Saves.” In particular she represents compassion in action, since she’s in the process of stepping from her lotus throne in order to help sentient beings.The syllable Om has no conceptual meaning, and is sound representing the entire universe, past present and future.Tāre represents salvation from mundane dangers and suffering. Tara is seem as a savioress who can give aid from material threats such as floods, crime, wild animals, and traffic accidents. Tara is therefore said to protect against ordinary worldly dangers.Tuttāre represents deliverance into the spiritual path conceived in terms of individual salvation. In traditional terms, this is the path of the Arhant, which leads to individual liberation from suffering. This is seen in Mahayana Buddhism as a kind of enlightenment in which compassion does not figure strongly. Tara therefore offers individual protection from the spiritual dangers of greed, hatred, and delusion: the three factors that cause us individual suffering. Lastly, ture represents the culmination of the spiritual path in terms of deliverance into the altruistic path of universal salvation – the Bodhisattva path. In the Bodhisattva path we aspire for personal enlightenment, but we also connect compassionately with the sufferings of others, and strive to liberate them at the same time as we seek enlightenment ourselves. Tara therefore delivers us from a narrow conception of the spiritual life. She saves us from the notion that spiritual progress is about narrowly liberating ourselves from our own suffering, and instead leads us to see that true spiritual progress involves having compassion for others. Svaha means: “Hail!”, “Hail to!” or “May a blessing rest on!” We could see this final blessing as symbolizing the recognition that we are,