Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo
Oxnard, California, United States
Transformative Buddhist Textile Art
Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is a contemporary American textile artist working in an ancient Tibetan tradition. In Leslie's fabric thangkas, the sacred Buddhist images of Tibetan thangka paintings are rendered in vivid mosaics of silk. One of the only westerners trained in the art of silk appliqué thangka, Leslie is passionate about the preservation and evolution of this rare cultural tradition.