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Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment by Vicki MacKenzie (Paperback, 1999)
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By Vicki MacKenzie. Author Vicki MacKenzie. Even as a child Tenzin longed for solitude and spiritual perfection. (Kirkus UK). Diane Perry grew up in London's East End. At the age of 18 however, she read a book on Buddhism and realized that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life.
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The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Diane Perry grew up in London's East End. At the age of 18 however, she read a book on Buddhism and realized that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life. In 1963, at the age of 20, she went to India, where she eventually entered a monastery. Being the only woman amongst hundreds of monks, she began her battle against the prejudice that has excluded women from enlightenment for thousands of years. In 1976 she secluded herself in a remote cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, where she stayed for 12 years between the ages of 33 and 45. In this mountain hide-away she faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, floods, snow and rockfalls, grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three feet square - she never lay down. In 1988 she emerged from the cave with a determination to build a convent in northern India to revive the Togdenma lineage, a long-forgotten female spiritual elite. From living as a mendicant on #50 a year, she became a globe-travelling fundraiser, giving lecture tours and meeting with spritual leaders from the Pope to Desmond Tutu.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780747543893
eBay Product ID (ePID)87232517
Product Key Features
Book TitleCave in the Snow: a Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment
AuthorVicki Mackenzie
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBuddhism, Zoology
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight200 g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorVicki Mackenzie
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 16 Oct, 2024
Well worth the read!
Very interesting book! What Tenzin Palmo has achieved is absolutely amazing, incredible really!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
