What Else, 2023
Seta Manoukian - Ani Pema Drolma (b.1945) is a Lebanese painter of Armenian descent.
She was a prominent figure in the burgeoning Beirut art scene of the late 60s. In 1975 the civil war breaks out in Lebanon just as Seta begins teaching at the Lebanese University in Beirut. In 1985 she moves to Los Angeles, where she continues her work as an artist.
In 2000, she joins a Buddhist Theravada Temple in Los Angeles, and in 2005 is ordained as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka. After a 10 year hiatus and a full devotion to her Buddhist practice, Seta Manoukian as Ani Pema Drolma returns to painting in 2016.
She was a prominent figure in the burgeoning Beirut art scene of the late 60s. In 1975 the civil war breaks out in Lebanon just as Seta begins teaching at the Lebanese University in Beirut. In 1985 she moves to Los Angeles, where she continues her work as an artist.
In 2000, she joins a Buddhist Theravada Temple in Los Angeles, and in 2005 is ordained as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka. After a 10 year hiatus and a full devotion to her Buddhist practice, Seta Manoukian as Ani Pema Drolma returns to painting in 2016.