Giorgio Dallorto Artwork

ABOUT GIORGIO DALLORTO Giorgio Dallorto was born in Piedmont, Italy in 1953. He was first drawn to Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan culture due to an interest in Hatha Yoga at the age of twenty-two. This eventually brought him to meet his root teacher, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, in the summer of 1978. After a few years traveling India and Nepal, visiting the main Tibetan settlements and deepening his knowledge, he started to collaborate extensively with the International Dzogchen Community, working for Merigar West in many different roles: gakyil member, gekö, manager of the Merishop, consultant for the Shang Shung Institute of Tibetan Studies, etc. Over the last twenty years Dallorto has dedicated himself in a free and independent way to an in-depth study of Tibetan history and culture and in particular the arts. He has studied Tibetan language under the direction of Prof. Fabian Sanders giving particular attention to the different styles of Tibetan calligraphy, as well as following many courses of Tibetan calligraphy, both Uchen and Umed, led by the well-known artist and calligrapher Tashi Mannox. Giorgio has also collaborated with Migmar Tsering, the Tibetan artist based at Merigar West, in the realization of the Mandalas inside the cinerary at the Gar, situated in Tuscany, Italy. In recent years he has completely dedicated himself to artistic works reflecting both our Western artistic heritage as well as to the traditional art of Tibet.