Carmen Mensink is an internationally renowned painter of thangkas, the traditional Tibetan scroll paintings of Buddhas and mandalas. She is the founder of the School for Tibetan Buddhist Art.

Carmen is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has more than two decades of experience in teaching this beautiful art, as well as Buddhist meditation and philosophy, at museums, universities, and Buddhist centers around the world.

Through her in-person and online hangka retreats, Carmen has guided thousands of people along the Buddhist Art & Dharma path. She has been featured in dozens of publications and has been teaching at places including the ones on the left.

Carmen is also being asked to work on related Tibetan art forms, including large floor paintings of the '8 Auspicious Symbols' to welcome the Dalai Lama in the Netherlands in 2009, 2014 and 2018 (see also the video below). For more info go to www.tibetan-buddhist-art-com

The following short portrait was filmed for Dutch National TV during the Thangka Summer Retreat in The Netherlands:

An overview of venues where Carmen teaches or has been teaching: