01AuthenticateWe sit with the maker, first
Authorship is established at the source — the lineage, the deity, and the hand that made the work.
Discipline
Thangka
Author
Suman Bhomjan
Certifying the living art of the Himalaya.Authentic, owned by the artist.
01Authenticate
02DocumentEvery detail, to the millimetre
High-resolution capture, exact measurement and pigment analysis — gathered into one permanent record of identity.
Medium
Mineral pigment
Capture
High-resolution
03CertifyA tamper-evident seal
A certificate that binds the work to its record — supported by connoisseurship, trusted by collectors and institutions.
Certificate
HAC-2025-001234
Status
Published
04VerifyProvenance that travels
Backed up to decentralised storage and checkable in seconds — wherever the work goes, its story goes with it.
Backup
Decentralised
Lookup
Seconds
Authentic, documented,and permanent.
Documentation
Every work is captured in high resolution and measured to the millimetre, while preserving the pigments, ground and consecration that fix its identity forever.
More details- High-resolution capture
- Pigment & ground analysis
- Ritual context recorded
600 dpi
Documentation recordAmoghpasha Lokeshvara
Rabi Shrestha · 2022
- Artwork no.
- ART-2025-00070
- Medium
- Cotton · Natural colour · Gold
- Dimensions
- 44 × 48 cm
- Subject
- Paubha
- Origin
- Tokha, Kathmandu
- Period
- Contemporary
- Colour profile
- 16-bit · Adobe RGB
- Condition
- Examined · Stable
- Capture
- 600 dpi calibrated
Certification
A tamper-evident certificate binds each work to its permanent record — issued by the Council, owned by the artist, and verifiable anywhere in seconds.
More details- QR verification
- NFC tap-to-verify
- Decentralised backup
Provenance
A verifiable record of a work's journey — its origin, authorship, certification and every check — travels with it, wherever it goes in the world.
More details- Origin & authorship
- Certified & time-stamped
- Verifiable anywhere
Provenance verifiedSilenced Hiti
Teesha Shrestha · 2025
Provenance record2025Created
Teesha Shrestha · Kathmandu
Dec 2025Certified
Himalayan Art Council · on-chain record
Dec 2025Registered to owner
Ownership recorded · transfers tracked on-chain
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From sale to certificate
Undocumented saleCouncil-certified
Word-of-mouth attribution
uncertainDocumented, verified authorship
permanentPaper receipt, easily lost
fragileTamper-evident certificate
secureNo record of lineage or ritual
missingLineage & ritual context recorded
on fileAuthorship disputes on resale
costlyVerify anywhere in seconds
instantValue rests on trust alone
at riskProvenance travels with the work
for lifeThe difference
The measurable trust behind the seal
A certificate is the difference between an object and a heritage. Here's what changes when a Himalayan artwork moves from an undocumented sale to a Council-certified record — for the people who make it, and the people who collect it.
Every certified work carries a tamper-evident record of its authorship, materials, dimensions and history — verifiable on your phone in seconds, before any money changes hands.
The record is backed up to decentralised storage and moves with the work across borders, sales and generations. No lost receipts, no broken chain of ownership.
A clear, permanent ownership trail protects your investment and makes a piece far easier to insure, lend, exhibit or resell — turning a beautiful object into a documented heritage asset.
Certification keeps the maker credited and connected to their work, so collecting Himalayan art also sustains the artists and traditions that create it.
From the journal
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