Thangka Project
Besenyei Lili
My first encountered with thangka painting when I was 13 years old. I've learned painting in the Hungarian Secondary School of Visual Arts. In 2011 I did take refuge in Beru Khyentse Rinpoche and then continued my studies at the Dharma Gate Buddhist College. I practiced in a self-taught way from 2015, and then in 2019 I had been studying under the guidance of Master Lochoe and dr. Sarika Singh in Dhamashala in 2022, where I obtained my MSc degree, which I wrote on the subject of Russian icon painting and Tibetan Buddhist painting.
​Thangkas are canvas-painted, rolled-up images what help you to get over in various troubles and sink into the meditation. They can depict various buddhas, bodhisattvas, peaceful and wrathful deities, teachers, mandalas, and the life of the Buddha. Pillars of consciousness that always remind the Buddhist practitioner of the their own buddha nature.
The only one thangka painter in Hungary with Thangka Project undertakes to pass on the basics of thangka painting to those who want to immerse themselves in Buddhist teachings in a practical way.
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Education:
2017- 2019 : Dharma Gate Buddhist College – MA – Dharma teacher
2012- 2015 : Dharma Gate Buddhist College – BA – Dharma teacher
2008-2012 : Secondary School of Visual Arts – Painter
Scholarships:
2022: Tempus Foundation scholarship to Mongolia
2019 June-October : Tempus Foundation-Campus Mundi traineeship scholarship (Center for Living Buddhist Art, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India)
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Solo Exhibitions:
2022 April: Thangka Exhibition, Dharma Gate Buddhist College Gallery, Budapest
2019 October: Thangka Exhibition, House of Herényi, Szombathely [video]
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Group Exhibitions:
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2017 June: 22. International Miniature Festival, Szín-Folt Gallery, Kaposvár
2014 October: Kemenes Volcano Park, Celldömölk
2011 November: ÉNKÉPEK-Group exhibition of the school leavers of Technical School of Fine- and Applied Arts, Faculty of Photography and Faculty of Painting, Pepper Art Projects, Budapest
2010: Students of Secondary School of Visual Arts whose joined the Art Colony in Csongrád, Gallery of Secondary School of Visual Arts, Budapest
2009,2010,2011,2012: End-of-Year Exhibitions, Gallery of Secondary School of Visual Arts – Painter, Budapest
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Awards:
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2014 October, Special Prize from Erika Illés sculptor: Kemenes Volcano Park, Celldömölk
2009, Special Prize: Drawing Competition of Secondary School of Visual, Budapest
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Bibliography:
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2022 May (Interview): Buddha FM Radio: Thangka painting-art or religion?
2020 October (Interview): 2040 TV, Terefere [video]
2019 November (Interview): Tibor Moldoványi: Lili from Budaörs to India, she travelled to the masters of thangka painting, [Read]
2019 December-January (Interview): Mercédesz Nagy: Window and Mirror, MűértÅ‘,page 14., volume 22 [Read]
2018 July (Interview): Dániel Bodnár: Painted Bible, katolikus hírportál [Read]
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Publication
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2020 April: The meaning and function of buddhist thangkas, Scientific achievement from the world 2, [Read] Foundation
