Cave in the Snow

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A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment

Vicki MacKenzie

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Bloomsbury
01 October 1999

Biography: general; Religion & beliefs; Buddhism; Gender studies: women

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.

By: Vicki MacKenzie
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 503mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780747543893
ISBN 10: 0747543895
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 October 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=1701

Reviews for Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment

What drove a modern Englishwoman to meditate in a dark hole in the Himalayan mountainside for 12 years? What did she do for food, warmth and exercise - and how did she emerge from such extremes as healthy and chatty 'as a woman at a cocktail party'? Journalist MacKenzie put these questions to Tenzin Palmo (born Diane Perry) when they met. Even as a child Tenzin longed for solitude and spiritual perfection. How she set about achieving this and how she has determined to help women to the 'right to spiritual enlightenment' are all part of this inspiring, mind-boggling story. (Kirkus UK)