Sacred Art · Est. 1998
The painted presence of awakened beings, unbroken for a thousand years.
A small atelier of master thanka painters, working in Boudhanath, Kathmandu. Mineral pigment, 24-karat gold, and breath-thin lines — each piece blessed at the stupa and shipped directly to your wall.
Recently completed
Highlights from the archive
The craft
Four months of breath, line, and silence.
Cotton canvas sized with chalk and lime. Pigments ground from lapis, malachite, vermillion, conch — bound in yak-hide glue. Twenty-four-karat gold leaf burnished by hand with agate.
Each piece passes through three artists, four months, and a final eye-opening — the moment the painting becomes alive. Then it is taken to Boudhanath stupa, blessed, rolled in silk, and shipped to you.
How a thanka is painted →Symbolism
Every line is a visualisation
Mudras, mantras, mandalas. A thanka is not decoration — it is a meditation made visible.
Mudras
Hand gestures of awakening — earth-touching, meditation, teaching, fearlessness.
Mandalas
Sacred geometry as a map of the awakened mind, drawn in concentric rings.
Lotus thrones
Eight-petaled — the Eightfold Path. Born of mud, blooming pure.
Aureoles
Concentric haloes for body, speech, and mind — the three doors of practice.