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Sunday, August 1, 2010
Longest
Calligraphy Scroll - Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar
sets world record
NEW YORK CITY, USA -- Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar, a 56-year-old
Tibetan Master Calligrapher, resident of Sikkim, India has
created a 163.2 meters long calligraphy scroll , setting the world record for the Longest
Calligraphy Scroll.
Photo: Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar revealing
the World's Longest
Calligraphy Scroll at the Flushing Medow Park
in New York. (enlarge
photo)
The Longest
Calligraphy Scroll in the World is 163.2 meters long
and contains long life prayers composed for His Holiness the
fourteenth Dalai Lama by 32 great spiritual masters of Tibet.
The World's Longest
Calligraphy Scroll was written on Lokta Tibetan handmade
papers manufactured in Nepal by a Tibetan paper company, the
ink used was Japanese Sumi Ink.
The Longest
Calligraphy Scroll in the World has been previously
exhibited at the Tenzin Gyatso Institute in the presence of
International Bestselling author Sogyal Rinpoche and the Special
Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyari Rinpoche.
It took 6 months for Jamyang to write the
World's Longest
Calligraphy Scroll which contains 65,000 Tibetan characters,
written in different Tibetan calligraphy styles including
Tsugring, Tsugthung, Tsugma Kyug and Kyug form of Umed. 
Photo: International Bestselling author
Sogyal Rinpoche and Special Envoy of HH the Dalai Lama Lodi
Gyari Rinpoche viewing the World's Longest
Calligraphy Scroll. (enlarge
photo)
Born in Lhasa, Tibet, Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar
studied in Tibetan refugee schools in Shimla and Mussoorie,
India.
He worked as a senior Bureaucrat for the Government
of Sikkim, India and later joined the Central Tibetan Administration
of the Tibetan Government in Exile in Dharamsala, India.
Jamyang is currently based in Nepal and works
as the Regional Program Coordinator for the Conservancy for
Tibetan Arts and Culture (CTAC).
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