An archive ofpainted devotion.

Forty years of Robert Beer’s work on Tibetan Buddhist and Newar Tantric iconography. Browse the artworks, sit with the essays, consult the glossary, or meet the artists whose hands made it.

Mahamaya

Mahamaya

Chewang Dorje

The painter

Robert Beer.

Cardiff to Oxford by way of Dharamsala and Kathmandu — fifty years studying and depicting the iconography of Tibetan Buddhist and Newar Tantric art.

  • Face of Vajrasattva
  • Mahasiddha Ghantapa
  • Mahasiddha Tilopa
  • Mahasiddha Carbaripa
  • Mahasiddha Jalandhara
  • The White Syllable 'A' (AH)
  • Wish-Fulfilling Tree