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.
Upcoming Programs
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.
