Venerable Lobsang Tendar Medicine Buddha Tantrayana Meditation Centre



Tendar leading meditation and chanting at Feb 2005 retreat
Sacred Tibetan Buddhist Art - Mandala Workshops
Tendar leading meditation and chanting at Feb 2005 retreat


Mandala Classes for 2012
with Venerable Lobsang Tendar

Learn to paint a traditional Tibetan Buddhist Mandala with Lama Tendar.
This is a heart opening experience and it is a privilege for us in the West
to have a chance to learn from a Tibetan Lama who is qualified to teach
mandala from the Gyuto tradition.

Mandala Classes will be held at two venues on the following dates:

Medicine Buddha Tantrayana Meditation Centre

Venue Address :

Friday 23rd March & 30th March
From 1.00pm to 5pm
Cost: $60 per session

Stella Maris - Garden Room

Venue Address :

Sunday 5th February & 25th March
From 1.00pm to 5.00pm
Cost: $60 per session

The mandala classes are not held every week, check with the centre regarding
the time-table. Friday and Sunday classes will be ongoing throughout the year.

For further information, please contact:

Dorothy Szendei PH: - Mobile:
or Email


Important! - New comers are welcome and no art experience is necessary.

Venerable Lobsang Tendar is a teacher of Sacred Tibetan Buddhist Art and is highly skilled in Chanting, creating Mandalas and Butter Sculptures. The Mandala Workshops that Tendar offers are not merely an art class or lesson in how to draw and add colour to a Mandala. Tendar's Mandala Workshops are a spiritual process where students have an opportunity to evolve as they become the mandala they are creating.

Though each specific mandala has a structured form and symbolism, each student is taught to create and perfect "their own" mandala under Tendar's caring and expert guidance. It is also important to note that no previous artistic experience is required.

Tendar working on a Mandala painting. He estimated that it may take another 3 months to complete at the time this photograph was taken

Tendar working on the now almost completed Mandala painting

Tendar's completed Mandala painting

For Information and Announcements ...
Information about new classes will be announced first on the News & Events page. Ongoing workshop dates and times will also be posted here along with expanded details when they become available.

Please contact either Tendar, Dorothy or the organiser of the classes/workshops (if the venue is not in Victoria) for bookings, as places are generally limited. If you are interested in participating in any of Tendars teachings, it is strongly recomended that you book early!

Funds raised through classes and workshops, including donations, are distributed to humanitarian causes which include the children and monasteries of Tibet and India. Your help and participation will make a meaningful difference.