Welcome to Tusita Divine Art, an enterprise with a difference. A first-of-its-kind. 
 
At Tusita we follow a model of responsible business, passing on a majority of our earnings to the community, for a purpose - that of ensuring preservation and appreciation of an ancient heritage art. 
True, our works are not created by any contemporary artist. They are in fact digital reproductions of ancient and inaccessible thangkas (Thangka Gallery) hidden away in chokhangs (small family temples) in the pristine valley of Spiti (Spiti Gallery), one of the remotest areas of India. This is the closest most people will ever get to these rare collections. Spiti usually gets just about two thousand tourists a year, and most of them only do a whistle-stop tour of its major monasteries and of Kaza, the divisional headquarters. The chokhangs in the far-flung villages are unknown to the tour operator and well-nigh inaccessible to the outsider. The thangkas hanging in them are breathtakingly beautiful, yet seen by none but the locals. The first challenge is to reach them, and then look through the cracks and the mould and the soot they have gathered from butter lamps lit over hundreds of years. Some of them are in near tatters, but these small temples lack the resources to maintain or restore them. 
Having photographed these exceptional thangkas, we digitally reproduce them in different sizes on 410 gsm Hahnemuhle canvas to give them the archival look, stitch them in the traditional fashion with contemporary fabric and specially designed handcrafted wooden knobs, then sell them, and give a major part of the earnings back to the chokhangs to help them preserve and restore the originals. 

The art itself is undoubtedly exquisite. However there’s much more to it than meets the eye. There’s a spiritual significance that enhances the splendour of each work, and unless comprehended, appreciation of the art remains incomplete. Each of our reproductions, for that reason, is accompanied by a detailed description of that particular piece, designed in an eye-catching calendar-like format that complements the thangka and can be hung alongside the reproduction. 

The entire project is an outcome of a decade of walking and driving through rough mountain terrain for research and meticulous documentation. 
We have had the good fortune of presenting one of our striking thangka reproductions to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and receiving his autograph on its replica. We take this as his blessing and his endorsement of our effort.