Wood Carving

Ratnamani Bramhacharya is a self taught woodcarver with a working knowledge of a dozen others. His family were tailors from Tilaurakot; a direct line of descent from the Buddha’s family. It was this family connection that inspired him to create religious works and by the time he was 12, Ratna had already started to create a wide variety of secular and religious sculptures as well as copying lost artefacts. Ratna also promotes woodcarving by providing training in his local community of Bungamati.