Beate Weywara   Painting, Drawing & Qi Gong   born in 1961 in Rosenheim (Germany), studied law before she started painting and drawing in Munich 1991. She has lived and worked 1993 in Maastricht (The Netherlands), 1994-2001 in Berlin, 2001-2005 in Maastricht, and since 2005 in Regensburg (Germany).   In 1999 she began practising Qi Gong (Tian Gong) in Berlin with Master Tianying, Master Tianping and Grandmaster Le Tian. In September 2002 she started the project "Der Lächelnde Buddha/Smiling Buddha" with spiritual drawings of a smiling Buddha. This ongoing project has been evolving in close interaction with her Qi Gong practice.

	Exhibitions/	Activities
	1997	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
	1999	FFBIZ-Galerie, Berlin
	2001	Tian Gong Institut, Berlin (together with Hui-Lian Rong and Yang Wang) during the "III. Asien-Pazifikwochen 2001 in Berlin"
	2003	Tafelstraat 13, Maastricht "Zwischen Himmel und Wasser" during the Ragweek in Maastricht
	2004	Kunsttour 2004 - Open Kunstdagen in Maastricht
	2004	Centre Céramique en Mondiaal Centrum, Maastricht "Mondiale Kunstveiling voor kinderen in Ethiopie"
	2005	Tian Gong Institut, Berlin "Der Lächelnde Buddha"
	2005	In den Halven Maan I, Maastricht, with ConstellArti Maastricht
	2005	Kunsttour 2005 - Open Kunstdagen in Maastricht, with ConstellArti Maastricht
	2005	In den Halven Maan II, Maastricht, with ConstellArti Maastricht
	2007 - 2008	Education as a Qi Gong teacher by the Tian Gong masters
	since 2009	Teaching Tian Gong Qi Gong in Regensburg
	2013	Symposium International Land-Art Maastricht and Kunsttour 2013: Qi-Gong-Performance with Smiling Buddhas
	2015	Opening of the Herder-Kulturzentrum / Kloster Pielenhofen near Regensburg: Watercolours "Baum-Aquarelle"