Thangka Art: This form of art originated in Tibet, by the Buddhist monks of the 14th century. These paintings are created on cotton and silk cloth, with rich colors and gold lines. These intricate paintings have elaborate compositions, with a main figure in the center surrounded by other identified small figures or different scenes in a symmetrical composition. They are traditionally unframed and rolled up when not on display. Thangkas were intended for personal meditation and instruction of monastic students. They are also used by common people as devotional images for prayer and ritual ceremonies. Lawrence Sinha has incorporated Thangka form of art to present the life of Jesus to non-Christians and Christians as well. "My vision is to incorporate the Thangka form of art to portray the visual representation of the gospel: to present the life of Jesus to the non Christians, namely the Buddhists and Hindus: and to re-evangelize the Christians.I Began experiencing persecution from the age of 20, when I married my wife, Chandra, the eldest daughter of a devout Hindu family. My wife's family wasn't supportive of her decision to marry a Christian man, and they were out to get me. Thats when the reality of what i was to face sunk in. I experienced temptations to give up my Christian faith in order to protect my family. We were threatened and treated as outcasts. Most of our family severed ties with us, but the living Christ gave my wife and me the strength to endure suffering and remain faithful to Jesus. Although we struggled, we continued to make our own living despite the persecution and boycott by the community and our families. Thanks to Jesus, we came in contact with the "Underground Catholic Church" and began worshiping with other Christians. Mass and prayer sessions were secretly conducted at homes. This was when I started Christian Thangka paintings.The vision of Christian Thangka art began in the 1970s, while I was working as a tour guide in Kathmandu, the capital city of the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. I saw western tourists buying whatever Buddhist or or Hindu trinkets they could lay their hands on. This is when I felt a strong call to introduce Jesus through Thangka paintings to our fellow citizens, who were mostly Buddhists and Hindus, and also re-evangelize the Christian tourists and trekkers. In order to bring this vision to reality, I bought a Thangka gallery and began to depict the life of Jesus in Buddhist art. I was not an artist; it took 6 years to learn Thangka art and depict the life of Jesus in an intricate Thangka painting. The success of this art brought unwanted attention from Hindu leadership.When I published my first Christian Thangka calendar, I was arrested. This was the time when King Birendra of Nepal was visiting the Vatican in order to obtain Pope John Paul's blessing to declare Nepal a "Zone of Peace." The Pope showed the King one of my Thangka paintings. Through the Pope's ambassador to Nepal and India, I had sent one of my paintings to Pope John Paul II. Upon his return to Nepal, King Birendra not only released me but also granted religious freedom for all in Nepal." St Mother Teresa of Kolkata regularly visited her nuns in Kathmandu, Nepal. Lawrence, who supported the nuns in their ministry with the orphans and the elderly, became associated with St. Mother Teresa through her nuns. She was inspired and became a great supporter of Lawrence's Ministry through art.