Enrico Dell’Angelo, Portraits of India and Tibet (1996 – 2014)

We are pleased to present

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Portraits of India and Tibet is an exhibition of fifty photographs by Enrico Dell’Angelo, taken during his stay in Tibet and during his travels in India and Bhutan. The exhibition is created in collaboration with Merigar West as part of Semi di Consapevolezza, a global citizenship education project funded by the Italian Buddhist Union.

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 Merigar West (Arcidosso, Grosseto)
 From 13/03 to 01/05 | visits to be arranged with the secretariat

  OPENING APERITIF: Sunday 13/03 h 11:00-13:00

  With a donation here on our website it is possible to get a print of one or more photographs and support our campaign Non Solo in Tibet, in support of the communities of Tibetans living in exile and of the heritage of knowledge and spirituality that they preserve.

The photographic exhibition

ENRICO DELL’ANGELO

Enrico Dell’Angelo was born in Rome on 11 September 1954.  In 1976 he meets Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, a great Master of the Dzogchen Teaching, professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at the Oriental University of Naples. To follow his lessons he moves to Naples and graduates in 1982 in Tibetan Language and Culture with a thesis entitled” The magical offering of the universe: a study of the Bon teaching of gShen rab Mi Bo”.

For research reasons on the ancient Bon tradition, he goes to India in 1980 where he stays for a year studying with Yongzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak, one of the greatest Bon masters of this era and founder of the Bonpo Community of Dolanji and of the Triten Norbutse monastery of Kathmandu.

In 1988 he leaves for Tibet for a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and for archaeological research on the origins of the ancient kingdom of Shang Shung in western Tibet. In 1988, together with Namkhai Norbu, he founds the non-governmental organisation “ASIA” for the development of economic and social conditions and the preservation of the Tibetan language and culture. In 1989, he takes part in the founding of the international institute of Tibetan studies “Shang Shung”, of which he becomes secretary general until 1996, the year in which he leaves for Lhasa as director of the humanitarian projects of the non-governmental organisation CISP, with which he works until 1998.

From 1998 to 2001 he directs the emergency projects of the NGO ASIA in the prefectures of Ngari and Nagchu and in Qinghai to help the nomads hit by terrible snowfalls.

In 2002, he is hired by the Trace Foundation, first as director of programmes in Tibet and then as Executive Director of the Foundation. In 2010 he leaves Tibet, where he stayed almost continuously for more than fourteen years, and moves to New York, working with the Trace Foundation until 2012.

Back in Italy, he devotes himself to the organisation and establishment of the “International Dzogchen Community”, for which he works until his premature passing in Rome on 26 December 2016. Enrico was a passionate Tibetologist, fluent in the different dialects of Tibet, a photographer and an expert in international cooperation. He dedicated his whole life to the preservation of Tibetan culture.