Yeshi Dorjee
Born in Bhutan to Tibetan parents. Presently U.S. Citizen
Training as a Buddhist Philosophy and Spiritual Art Final examination completed in 1996 on Buddhist Philosophy and art in Gyudmed Tantric University Monastic in South India. Teaching Experience 1991-1997: Gyudmed University. Taught Logic and Middle way classes. 1994: 2 months Visting teacher at the Tibetan Temple, a Boddhist center in Loungiuel, Canada. 1996: 2 months: Guest lecturer, Seifu Gaukon High School, Osaka, Japan. 2008-2014: Tibetan art and meditation classes for students at University of California Santa Barbara. Funded by the Rubin Foundation, NYC. Major Shows and Lectures 1999: Two arts on display at the Smithsonian Museum (Washington, DC). 2000: Invited by the Smithsonian Museum for Culture Beyond the Snow Land exhibition two weeks; approximately 1 million people visited the exhibition. 2002: Invited by the Smithsonian Museum to present my work and teach at the Silk Road Festival for two weeks: 1.2 million people visited the exhibition. 2003: Presented my art at the Bowers Museum at Santa Anna two times.
2004: Gave Lectures on the meaning of Spiritual art and how it relates to Tibetan life to the Docent Council, Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena, CA.
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Tibet House US was founded at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who at the inauguration in 1987 stated his wish for a long-term cultural institution to ensure the survival of Tibetan civilization and culture, whatever the political destiny of the six million people of Tibet itself.
