A Gift for the Village - A Documentary Film

In 2007, a team of 7 friends from the United States embarked on an amazing journey. Carrying High Definition Video Cameras and an artist’s masterpiece, they flew to Kathmandu, Nepal and beyond. This is a story of a remarkable collaboration between a respected Buddhist teacher named Amchi Tsampa Ngawang Lama and a painter from Blacksburg, Virginia named Jane Lillian Vance, and of the gifts exchanged between two cultures half a world apart, but linked by friendship and common cause. The film