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Ian A. Baker is a cultural historian and the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan art
and culture, including The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple and The Tibetan Art of Healing. He was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition 'Tibet's Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism' at the
Wellcome Collection, London. He leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan and was named by the
National Geographic Society as one of the seven 'Explorers for the Millennium' for his groundbreaking
field research in Tibet's Tsangpo Gorges. Romio Shrestha is a modern master of the Indo-Nepali-Tibetan Buddhist traditions of enlightenment art. Romio Shrestha's Thangka's can be found in many of the great collections of the world including The British Museum, The Victoria Albert Museum, London, The Buchheim Museum, American Museum of Natural History New York, National Museum Moscow, The Chester Beatty Library Dublin, The Voelkerkunde Museum Zurich as well as many private collections around the globe. |
