Nobody Daughter Of No One

Sangchen Tsomo: In the tradition of the great female Tantric mystics like Mandarava,Yeshe Tsogyel or polymaths of European mystical history such as Hildegard of Bingen, Sangchen Tsomo is a yogini who has lived many years in solitary mountain retreat. She is a living example of profound spiritual awakening and she is a painter, maker of magical boxes and healing amulets, master conga player and music producer. This page shares a few of her many works.

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Second Hand Love, oil and paper on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo 2018

He himself, as the result of his own freedom, binds himself here by means of actions whose nature is composed of imagined differences. He does this out of Love. - Abhinavagupta

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Magical Boxes 231-238, 

When i look at things I see meanings, intersections of meaning. Colors, forms, shapes, toys, bits and pieces all of them carry stories and worlds within worlds. Magic is the ability to see these worlds, construct them from meanings and enter into them. - Sangchen Tsomo

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Dreaming of My Sister, oil on canvass, Sangchen Tsomo 2018

“When you search for the home of the soul you become the soul.” - Rumi

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Fish. Dream. Love., 40x42, acrylic on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo 2018

I create because I have to. If I could stop I would. But that is not a choice. It compels me, is me, more than “me”. The divine overflows and there is existence, in union with That MindHeart overflows and is creativity.” - Sangchen Tsomo

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The Result is Also the Origin, 40x42″, oil on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo 2018

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.- the artist Marc Chagall

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And She Also Knew, 18x13, oil on cavass, Sangchen Tsomo, 2018

“What frees you is not words, but rather someone’s presence, their actual being. That is the scripture you must attend to.” - Shams of Tabriz to Rumi

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And Then There Were Dreams, oil on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo, 2018

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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At the Feet of the Masters, 40x42, oil on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

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On the Streets of St. Remy, oil on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo 2018

Once one falls in love with light the world becomes a ceaseless affair of the heart. 

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Triadic Heart, 25x40″, oil on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo 2018

When the heart has wisdom there can never again be the thoughts superiority or inferiority, all the world is seen in its deep glory, its true form of grace and wonder and in its equality. - t.k.

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Luminous Essence, oil on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo 2018

It is by the force of addiction to conventional life that the profound vast Reality is deluded into believing itself to be this or that. Once addicted the only cure is to discover the Luminous Essence though direct enquiry into what is meant by the words “I Am”.  - Sangchen Tsomo

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Relentless Twilights, 42″x40″, oil on canvas, Sangchen Tsomo, 2018

Sometimes I am a woman, sometimes a man. Sometimes I am twilight and sometimes I am dawn. I wear these cloths for you, my friends, so that we might share a moment. Most of the time I , like you, am nobody at all. Just brightness and mystery. - Sangchen Tsomo

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A Major Key Point - Is,  42″x40″, Sangchen Tsomo

It’s inexpressible by speech but demands to be expressed. There’s just no alienation place in true freedom. You’re just all over everything like white on rice. - Sangchen Tsomo

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“Art is literacy of the heart

Elliot Eisner

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There Are Six Colors of Sound, 42″x40″

Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.” - Miles Davis 

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Orisha Oko, Divine Power of Farming 42″x40″ oil on canvas 

“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.” - Wendell Berry

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“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

Frida Kahlo