Himalayan Art Prints

8 museum-quality Himalayan prints — made-to-order giclée reproductions of Himalayan masterworks, printed on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

The sacred painting of the Himalayan region — the Tibetan thangka and the closely related Newar paubha of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley — served religious practice rather than display for its own sake. Painted in mineral pigments on prepared cotton and mounted on silk so they could be rolled for storage or travel, these scrolls typically present a central deity surrounded by smaller attendant figures in strict symmetrical composition, or a mandala, the geometric diagram of a divine realm.

Commissioning such a painting was itself an act of merit; the finished work functioned as a support for meditation, a teaching image, and an object of worship, its making governed by scriptural rules of proportion and ritual consecration. The Newar artists of Nepal, sought after across the Himalayas and as far as the Chinese imperial court, profoundly shaped the Tibetan tradition, whose earliest surviving cloth paintings date from around the eleventh century.