About us

Buddhist Images is run by Dhiramati (D.P. Miller), a member of the Western Buddhist Order. I have been practising Buddhism, meditation and yoga meditation since 1987 and, since 1999, been travelling regularly to Nepal buying Buddhist statues and thangkas. I've developed very good relationships with the local craftspeople and their families. Most of the businesses are fairly small-scale family operations that have been handed down generation to generation. I'm very happy to be supporting this local artisan culture through my work.

Part of the profits from BuddhistImages go toward the Green Tara Trust, a charity working with women in Nepal. I also work with Buddhafield, a buddhist community running camping retreats in the West country with its own annual festival. If you would like to help with the work of Buddhafield you can make a donation. I am also doing a sponsored all night puja at the Buddhafield festival (July 2010) to raise money to help buy a beautiful piece of land in Devon where we hold retreats - more info here.
I teach yoga and meditation, co-lead rituals and do storytelling on a number of events including Dhanakosa, a retreat centre in Scotland.

I'm personally very interested in Buddhist iconography, archetypes and imagery and draws much inspiration from them and in providing others with that opportunity. Some of you may be interested in some of the pujas (devotional verses) that I've written.

About the making of our thangka paintings and statues

About the making of the statues (rupas)

These photos show the transformation of the raw copper, from being poured into the clay molds, and then worked on until they are finally painted carefully by hand.

 

And then there are the wooden statues...