The title in Tibetan characters means “wind horse”, in transcription “rlung rta”. In German and English, people like to talk about Tibetan or Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags. But wind horses are something else. They are […]
Dr. Jampa Wurst
Asanga and the Dog
During the Seven-year Systematic Study of Buddhism (1991-1998) at the Tibetan Center in Hamburg with Geshe Thubten Ngawang, I heard the story of the Buddhist teacher Asanga for the first time. Asanga meditated for 12 […]
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Buddhist Teacher, Pastoral Counselor
This portrait is a tribute to Ayo Yetunde. She is not only an impressive woman, Buddhist teacher and theologian, feminist and author, but also works intersectionally and in interreligious dialog. However, like any portrait, this […]
Bird, Chaos Catastrophe
The bird is cut out of an old T-shirt. It looks suspiciously at its surroundings. It is not an environment in which it can live. It is colorful, in the primary colors blue, red and […]
The Colorful Dharma Birds
Inspired by a reading of a text that Konen had read at the 4th IQBC, an image arose in my mind that was meant to be on the canvas, see iqbc.org/schedule-2024/.I had inherited Meyers Konversationslexikon from […]
Dance of the Hurricanes
In the 1960s, floods in Bangladesh were on the TV news every year. Bangladesh has long since stopped being an area of interest. In the meantime, “climate change”, as it is downplayed instead being called […]
Fractals, chaos, Mandelbrot set
Through books such as “Fractals and Chaos”, Herbert Zeitler & Wolfgang Neidhardt, Darmstadt 1993, through articles on the Mandelbrot set, through my affinity for science fiction etc., this image of structures that repeat themselves arose, […]
The Wisdom of the Rainbow Snake
An old pair of blue jeans is glued to a canvas and then wrapped in plaster bandages so that the jeans stand upright. The jeans, painted with acrylic paint and labeled “Make Love not War” […]
Going by beetle VW
A guest from the USA stayed with me some time ago to, as she said, “get out of the comfort zone”. Europe and Germany were something completely new to her. We drove around in my […]
Metal Universe
This picture was a challenge.The idea was to create something new from old screws that were no longer usable following the renovation of a terrace. Simply throwing them away was not an option.The result was […]
Impressions from Tatooine: What happened to Chewie?
As a SyFy and therefore also a Star Wars fan, collecting Star Wars figures, I occasionally received figures as gifts from the students and cards were exchanged. I grew up with Star Wars and even […]