DaughtersofBuddha

This shop is dedicated to support Tibetan Nuns Project in selling Fine Art Prints and postcards.
50% of the sales of all the articles sold here are going to Tibetan Nuns Project.

The Tibetan Nuns Project was founded more than 20 years ago in order to provide Tibetan nuns in India with a high quality education and humanitarian help. The main goal of the TNP is to enable nuns to make a living based on their schooling, to develop their capacities and to establish projects that will generate revenues. Additionally, it is supposed to help women to gain more recognition inside Buddhism itself.

On August 14 2014, a moving exhibition of my photographs "Tibetan Nuns - Resistance and Compassion" opened at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg, Germany. The exhibition will run until next February. i'm offering 50% of the sales of all these articles here to Tibetan Nuns Project.

“We must insist on education for all. Women must be much more involved in our societies and take part in the building of a more peaceful, less violent world in which people help one another.” Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Pigment prints of museum quality are realized by the author on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper guaranteeing the best conservation of your image. Other options are available, like aluminium framed prints, shadow box frame and prints with acrylic mounting.

Here you will find a interview on my collaboration with Tibetan Nuns Project:

http://tnp.org/compassionate-eye-interview-photographer-olivier-adam/



Biography /

Olivier Adam was born in 1969. He is a physicist, graduated from the “ Ecole Normale Supérieure” in Paris, but through the years he has turned to being a photographer. He is now a free lance photographer and a teacher at the photography school Auguste Renoir in Paris. In 2001, his work on the Khmer dance and silk was exhibited at the “Palais de l’Unesco” in Paris. For several years now he has been studying the Tibetan culture and Buddhism, specially attending the Kalachakra classes, taught by His Holiness the Dalai Lama all over the world. He belongs to a humanist tradition and works on personal subjects, mixing both Man and the Sacred. Rituals, women and their universe holding an important place in his photos. He has worked together with Sofia Stril-Rever, Matthieu Ricard and Manuel Bauer on a book called “Kalachakra : un mandala pour la paix”, published in April 2008 by Editions de la Martinière and also the book “Dalai Lama- Appel au monde” published in May 2011 by the editor Le Seuil. Since 2008, he has been closely interested in the lives of the Tibetan nuns in exile. He started this work in five nunneries near Dharamsala and he goes further on meeting former political prisoners-nuns who were granted shelter in the western world. Dakinis, this series on the Buddhist female universe, supplemented by sounds and interviews collected by Dominique Butet, Oliviers’s wife, now extends to the nuns from across the Himalayas.


Publications : New York Times, Bouddhisme Actualités, Samsara, Libération, Réponses Photo, Compétences Photo, Cosmopolitan, La Martinière, Le Seuil, Regard Bouddhiste, Huffington Post, Mandala Magazine, Shambala Sun.