Contemporary & Traditional Tibetan Calligraphy

Title:
Precious Human Existence

Chinese ink on heavy water colour paper, 57x76 cm, 2007

Appreciate life, as it is difficult to obtain and easily lost.

As a seed, the essence of life, uncoils in growth, delicate, precious and whole.
This curling Bindu shape, Sanskrit, Tigli in Tibetan, holds the words ‘precious human birth’ in a Tibetan Drutsa script.

This is the first of the ‘Four Contemplations’:

1.Precious Human Existence
2.Impermanence
3.Karma
4.Samsara