Born 1947 in North Holland, the Netherlands.

It took me a detour and a long time to realise my childhood wish - to make painting my profession. I went to the art academy in Arnhem when I was 30. That year I also became enamoured by dance: I was fascinated by movement and wanted to integrate it into my paintings. After finishing at the academy I wanted to work with “e-motion” - movements and gestures inspired by emotions. It was during the same year that I looked for a Yoga class and came into contact with the drawing and painting classes of Harish Yohari. With him, I made my first sacred art - Kali in a Yantra. I also developed performances and workshops, working with movements of the body in order to produce paint strokes and colours while incorporating sounds with the voice.

Student of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu since 1980, I have been artistically inspired and guided by my maternal aunt since childhood, an accomplished painter and art teacher. She lived in the same house as me, where she had her painting studio-laboratory. I loved spending my days there, enchanted by that magical atmosphere and her creative originality.

Born in Piedmont, Italy in 1953, due to an interest in yoga Giorgio Dallorto became drawn to Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan culture in general. This brought him to meet his future and main teacher, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, in the summer of 1978. Over the last twenty years he has dedicated himself in a free and independent way to an in-depth study of Tibetan history and culture and in particular the arts.

我1952年出生在德国北部。18岁中学毕业之后，我带上我的水彩画颜料盒和木颜色画笔，搭便车环游欧洲大陆：法国、西班牙，到福门特拉岛，试图去明白我这一生究竟要做什么。过了一年之后，我发现绘画是一条正确的道路。1971年的时候，我入读柏林美术学院，之后还去了维也纳文艺复兴油画大师们的蛋彩画、油画和传统自然主义画风的技巧。1975年，我带上了颜料盒（而不是相机）游历了扎伊尔、苏丹和埃及。

邂逅教法

我是在1985年，当时住在奥地利和戈梅拉岛的时候皈依了教法并追随多位噶举派喇嘛，尤其是白度母的化身——天噶仁波切，并且在他的引导下进行了传统的前行修法。

我第一次认识南开诺布仁波切是在1985年的一场小型法会上。当时有30个人，是在奥地利的约阿希姆斯塔尔。仁波切当时传了仰滴和决法。但由于我迷乱的心，我什么都没有领会到，只是想：”这是什么怪诞的禅修啊？”无论如何，我初次感觉到觉悟的力量。

好几年之后，在巴西的时候，仁波切的《水晶与光道》打开了我的心，让我对那些年前仁波切在约阿希姆斯塔尔传的教法有了多一点的领悟。

1993年，我去了火山营，再次拜见了仁波切，确定他是我的主要上师。
随之而来的是在不同地方举行的法会。

我的法教类作品在我成为了仁波切的弟子以后有了非常巨大而自然的变化，变得更为清晰。

I was born in 1963. Since 1988, I have studied and practiced meditation and yoga under the guidance of various masters in Buddhist, Bonpo and Hindu traditions, the main one being Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. I am also a regular practitioner and teacher of traditional and therapeutic Hatha Yoga.

I was born in 1948 and grew up in Norway. My interest in the arts began when I was in my early teens. I was free spirited, and being pretty stubborn, I followed my own way, without considering a so-called "normal life” as an option.