The Museum preserves and exhibits the art and culture of Tibet to a world audience.
Nestled into the side of Lighthouse Hill, the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is a uniquely peaceful retreat. The Museum presents the art and culture of Tibet and the Himalayas to a world audience in order to educate and inspire others in the value of this significant cultural heritage. Established in 1945, the Museum was founded by the pioneering American woman Jacques Marchais (1887-1948)
, an important collector and respected expert in Tibetan art. Designed by Marchais, the rustic complex of fieldstone buildings resembles a Tibetan mountain monastery. These historic buildings represent the first Himalayan style architecture to be built in the United States, and it was the first museum in the world solely dedicated to Tibetan art. The surrounding landscape design, which Marchais named the 'Samadhi Garden,' feature a fish pond, meditation cells and many of her original plantings. The museum's distinctive setting highlights and enhances the experience of viewing the art within.
Operating as usual
Learn more in "Healing Practices" closing Jan 16
โHealth is not a matter of merely personal interest, but a universal concern for which we all share some responsibility.โ โFourteenth Dalai Lama Practices for healing vary across the world. In Tibetan Buddhism, mental, physical, and spiritual well-being are interdependent,โฆ
Yoga is ON for tonight! Last yoga before the new year!
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Sign up with the link in on our page โ๏ธ
In this season of darkness, many religious festivals celebrate sacred light. The Jewish festival of Hannukah began last night, commemorating the ancient miracle in which the lamps of a menorah are said to have burned for eight days from a single dayโs supply of oil.
In Himalayan cultures, butter lamps such as the ones found in our "Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room", are used as offerings of light. The light itself serves as a metaphor for illuminating wisdom that dispels the darkness of ignorance. This metaphor of light as wisdom is a common image in many religious traditions and holidays. The flickering offerings of butter lamps evoke Hanukkah menorah lights and remind us of the season of giving.
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Want to learn more about Tibetan Buddhist healing practices? Visit "Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans" on view now!
Both Buddhist teachers and physicians are healers who aim to free individuals from suffering. Gurus help people overcome negative states of the mind and earn positive karma while physicians offer medical remedies and lifestyle advice to help people overcome physical and mental ailments. Tangtong Gyelpo served in both these roles. Tangtong Gyelpo, depicted in this work, invented medicines in pill form that cure epidemic diseases. Tibetan medicine doctors today still prescribe these precious pills.
Learn more about and purchase admission tickets: https://rubinmuseum.org/events/exhibitions/healing-practices
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Tangtong Gyalpo (1361-1485 or 1385-1446/58); Tibet; 19th century; ground mineral pigment on cotton; Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin; C2006.66.478 (HAR 940)
Last sound healing before the new year !
Singing Bowl Meditation with Leslee Penny!
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
338 Lighthouse Avenue, Staten Island NY 10306
Last sound healing before the holidays/new year! Save your seat today!
RSVP using the link below:
https://www.tibetanmuseum.org/calendar-of-events
Join us for our last events of the year!
๐บTONIGHT, 7 PM: Gentle Yoga with
๐บSATURDAY, 3 PM: Tai Chi with Master Bob Murphy
๐บSUNDAY, 11 AM & 12:45 : Singing Bowl Meditation & Sound Healing with
Use the link in our bio to sign up!
Last sound healing before the holidays/new year! Save your seat today! (RSVP with link in bio)
Join us Sunday for 11 am meditation followed by an exclusive screening of YASHODHARA The Buddhaโs Wife directed by the fabulous ! Film screening 2 pm followed by a Q&A
Join us this Sunday for our last Tibetan style meditation & yoga with Dr. Chok ! Rsvp on our website (link in bio)
Join us SUNDAY DEC. 11 for an exclusive film screening, which debuted at the Queens International Film Festival !
โญ๏ธ RSVP : https://www.tibetanmuseum.org/event-details/film-screening-yashodhara-the-buddhas-wife
โญ๏ธ Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/MqHA8JlgMn0
โญ๏ธ Film description below
YASHODHARA: THE BUDDHA'S WIFE ๐
We all know of the Buddha but how many of us know of the wife and the child he left behind on the night of his childbirth because he wanted to go seek enlightenment.
This is the story of Yashodhara, the Buddha's wife.
He left, She stayed.
He came back enlightened after 12 years ..only to realize so did she!
Partake of this long pending healing conversation and witness this intense, intimate, epic tale of love, loss, and suffering which became a portal to both their enlightening.
Join us tomorrow, Thursday, at 7 PM for our weekly Gentle Yoga with Kerry Sullivan ! Gentle Yoga is perfect for anyone recovering from an injury or illness, a new mother looking to get back to yoga or anyone looking for a gentler practice.
Use the link in our bio (Calendar of Events) to reserve your spot!
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It's ! Please support the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art - we need your support now more than ever!
As you may know itโs Giving Tuesday. While the Museum had its most successful year in terms of programming, weโve also been hit hard by decreased funding and the inflation we are all suffering.
If you can, please donate via PayPal (www.paypal.com/paypalme/jmmta) or send a check to our mailing address. To pay directly by credit card, please call our office @ (718) 987-3500
If you canโt donate, please attend one of our upcoming classes & bring a friend. Anything helps!
Happy Thanksgiving ๐๐ฆ๐ฝ
We will reopen Saturday 1 pm
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Just before we began:
Photos from Utopia Winds's post
Beautiful sound healing session at Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Leslee Penny - Mindful Practitioner
We still have a few seats left for the concert tomorrow !
Utopia Winds, a clarinet quartet subset of the , will be performing jazz pop, broadway, and classics. Refreshments will be served.
Visit our exhibition, "Gateway to Himalayan Art," to explore how patrons sought the accumulation of merit and hoped for wealth, long life, and spiritual gains, all to be fulfilled through the ritual use of objects and commissioning works of art. This artwork is one of these commissioned works and depicts Ushnishavijaya at the center.
The deity Ushnishavijaya, or โVictorious Crown Ornament,โ is a goddess of long life. She also removes obstacles, promotes well-being, and ensures environmental stability.
At the bottom center of this painting is a depiction of the deceased individual on whose behalf this painting was made. The small figure, wearing white, is shown seated on a lotus, indicating that the relatives who commissioned this painting wish that the merit generated by its creation will help the departed to be reborn in a pure realm of a buddha. The central figure of the painting was either the personal deity of the deceased or chosen for the painting on the advice of a religious master.
Learn more about "Gateway to Himalayan Art," at the link below:
https://rubinmuseum.org/events/exhibitions/gateway-to-himalayan-art
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Ushnishavijaya; Tibet; 18th century; ground mineral pigment on cotton; Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin; C2006.66.507 (HAR 975)
There are still a few spots left for sound healing this Sunday !! 11 am - 2 spots left, 12:45 - multiple spots open! Sign up today on our website - link in bio
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Join us, JMMTA, and of the on Friday November 18th for a night of music โ classics, jazz pop, broadway, & more - with a reception to follow. Music will be held inside the museum.
RSVP with the link in our bio
There is still room to sign up for THIS SUNDAYโS class with Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam !
Sunday 11/13 11 AM sharp
MEET DR CHOK
Ordained by HH the Dalai Lama, Dr. Chok practiced as a Tibetan monk for 10 years before adopting the life of a practicing academic, teacher and healer. As the Head of the Research and Translation Department at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala, India he taught a wide range of modalities from Tibetan language classes to Tibetan yoga and Buddhist philosophy.
Get your yoga mats ready & join us for โGentle Yoga โ with our amazing instructor ! To sign up, click the link in our bio ๐
BOUT THE CLASS
Gentle/ Beginner yoga is a 1 hour class designed for those new to yoga or those looking for a softer gentler practice. It is open to all levels but especially useful if you are returning to yoga after a break, recovering from an injury or a mother returning to yoga practice 6 weeks postpartum. This class is taught in a supportive nurturing environment in which students feel safe and comfortable practicing at their own pace.
MEET KERRY
Kerry Sullivan has 17 years dance experience and has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 8 years. She received her 200hr certification through Yoga Alliance at Tula Yoga in 2015 and is Reiki II attuned, as well as an Advanced IET practitioner. In 2020 she received her birth and postpartum doula training through Healthy Women, Healthy Futures with DONA teachers Debra Pascali-Bonaro and Amadoma Bediako. She also completed the Radical Birth Keeper School of Free Birth Society in December of 2020. Her goal is to help her students connect to their divine potential, see their inner strength and find healing of mind, body and spirit through the practice of yoga, movement and energy healing.
thereโs still time to register for our 12:45 singing bowl meditation with !
โIn this meditation practice Tibetan singing bowls, gongs and bells guide the listener through the practice which incorporates tactile physical vibrations and frequencies in the healing process.
*Please bring a mat or something to sit on
RSVP : https://www.tibetanmuseum.org/event-details/12-45-pm-singing-bowl-meditation-with-leslee-penny-2022-11-06-12-45
Join us on TOMORROW 2PM after our singing bowl meditation sessions โ a wonderful talk with chance for Q&A with thangka artist and author, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo !
RSVP : https://www.tibetanmuseum.org/calendar-of-events
ABOUT LESLIE
โLeslie Rinchen-Wongmo is a textile artist, teacher, and author of Threads of Awakening: An American Womanโs Journey into Tibetโs Sacred Textile Art. A California girl who bought a one-way ticket to India and landed in a Tibetan sewing workshop next door to the Dalai Lama, she became one of few non-Tibetans to master the Buddhist art of silk appliquรฉ thangka. Trained by two of the finest living Tibetan appliquรฉ artists, Leslie learned to stitch bits of silk into elaborate figurative mosaics that bring the transformative images of Buddhist meditation to life.โ
Admission : free / donations encouraged
ATTENTION : NEVER BEFORE SEEN SINGING BOWLS !
We have retrieved our collectionโs singing bowls from storage for your healing !
Join us at the museum for our singing bowl meditations led by โ RSVP on our website to reserve your seat!
There is STILL ROOM for our sound healing session this SUNDAY 10/30 at 11 am & 12:45 pm sessions
Leslee will be debuting these bowls at the next sound healing meditation on November 6
RSVP:
https://www.tibetanmuseum.org/event-details/12-45-pm-singing-bowl-meditation-with-leslee-penny-2022-11-06-12-45
We along with the are excited to welcome to the Tibetan museum !
Join us on Friday 11/18 @ 7 PM for a night in the museum filled with music - classics, jazz pop, Broadway, & more !
RSVP on our website
There is still room to sign up for our sound healing, singing bowls meditation with ! There are 2 sessions: 11 AM & 12:45 PM.
To sign up, click the link in our bio!
Whoโs coming to gentle yoga tomorrow with ? Let us know below! โฌ๏ธ ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐งโโ๏ธ
Events happening this week @ JMMTA!
1๏ธโฃ THURSDAYS - Gentle Yoga with
2๏ธโฃ SATURDAY - Tai Chi with Master Bob Murphy
3๏ธโฃ SUNDAY - singing bowl meditation with (2 times available)
4๏ธโฃ SUNDAY AFTERNOON - 2 PM - meet and greet & Q&A with Thangka artist & author of โThreads of Awakeningโ (forward by the Dalai Lama himself), Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo
Please join us on SUNDAY 10/30 for a talk & Q&A with the amazing Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, textile artist and author, whose forward is by the Dalaรฏ Lama himself !
Sign up with the link in our bio
https://www.tibetanmuseum.org/event-details/meet-and-greet-with-thangka-artist-leslie-rinchen-wongmo
Thereโs still time to RSVP for our Halloween ๐/ Murder Mystery party this Saturday !
Link in bio to sign up!
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Beautiful day today to sit and enjoy our gardens ๐ธ
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A beautiful day at the Tibetan Museum
Traditional Tibetan Music at the Tibetan Museum today and tomorrow.
Ven. Lama Karma Namgyel at the museum
Nomad song.
Tibetan classical music.
Tibetan Musicians at the museum.
Tibetan Calligraphy with Tashi Mannox
Tashi Mannox Tibetan Calligraphy
Musical Chairs and the Buddha.
Fantastic concert by Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble last night at the Tibetan Museum.
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