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.

Karma Kagyu Refuge Tree

Karma Kagyu Refuge Tree

Dorje Tamang

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.

  • Mahasiddha Nagarjuna
  • Mahasiddha Ghantapa
  • Wish-Fulfilling Tree
  • Mahasiddha Shantideva
  • Blazing Skeleton
  • Mahasiddha Carbaripa
  • Mahasiddha Jalandhara