Drawing White Tara [Video]

Watch how the Nepali artist Tashi Lama drawing a traditional thangka painting of White Tara (Sanskrit: Sitatārā, Tibetan: སྒྲོལ་དཀར།). A true masterpiece of Buddhist art.

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