 His history of Namgyal Monastery is written in Tibetan.Since moving to the US in 1988, Samten has been commissioned to create works for numerous museums and institutions, including the Chicago Field Museum, Columbia University, Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution to name just a few.Samten has demonstrated the traditional practice of creating powdered mandalas at both the following museums