Eddy Deutsche is a tattoo artist. Eddy currently works from his private studio in Los Angeles and travels around the world working at well-known shops as a guest artist.
The art of Thangka painting and the tattoo seems to be parallel. As a thangkapainting tells a thousand-year-old story, so does the tattoo. Both have pretty artistic expression. These days most of the tattoo artists have been referring Thangka paintings to make tattoos so that they might give some life lessons to the viewers.
Here's an article by Heidi Minx that portrays the connection between Thangka and tattoo, and what other young artists have to say about .