Shashi Dhoj Tulachan

The Tulachan family is from the neighbouring village of Tukuche, to the south and comes from a long line of Buddhist artists.

His father, Kamal Dhoj Tulachan,[1] and grandfather are responsible for many wall paintings and statues to be found in gompas, chortens and private household shrines in villages of the Thak Kola (upper Kali Gandaki) area.

[2][3] Shashi began by assisting his father and elder brother, Krsna Dhoj Tulachan, aged 9, accompanying them to villages around Mustang.

By the age of 18 he had received his first solo assignment to paint the Mani Lha K'an of Gemi village, Mustang.

[5] Nine oversized thangka drawings from the Tibetan Karma Ghadri school of religious painting have been exhibited at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California since 2013.