About
About Himalayan Art
We sell finished Tibetan paintings. Not prints, not commissions, not reproductions — the painting in the photograph is the painting that ships, and when it sells there is not another one.
The name
The name says what we sell, not where we sit.
Himalayan art is the whole tradition these objects come out of — the paintings, the cast brass, the amulet boxes. The paintings sit in a narrower line inside it: Menri (སྨན་རིས, 勉唐画派), the school founded by Menla Döndrub in the mid-fifteenth century, the first genuinely Tibetan style rather than an imported Nepalese or Indian one. Regong painting descends from it. We say Himalayan Art because it is honest about the range, and we say Menri when we mean the painting.
What we sell
Two different things, and we keep them apart.
The paintings — 102 of them — are original works from a studio in Regong, Qinghai. Fifty-four of the fifty-five large ones came from one pair of hands. They are signed on the reverse and registered against the painter.
The amulets and objects — 85 pieces — are bought finished from a workshop we have used for years. They are gold- and silver-plated brass. They are not painted in Regong, they are not one of one, and we do not describe them as if they were.
How we price
One price, and it does not move.
There are no sale prices, no struck-through numbers and no seasonal discounts. Duties are included to the US, EU, UK and Australia, so the number on the page is the number you pay. Returns are 30 days with shipping both ways on us.
If you want to see a painting before you commit, ask and we will film that specific piece. It exists, so we can.
A note on what these are
These are objects from a living religious tradition.
We sell them as works of art and as devotional objects, and we describe what they depict and how they were made. We make no claim that owning one will change your circumstances, and we would rather you bought nothing than bought something on that basis.