Cave in the Snow Tenzin Palmo secluded herself in a remote cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, where she stayed for twelve years.Thirteen years later, Diane Perry a.Tenzin emerged from the cave with a determination to build a convent in northern India to
| TITLE | : | Cave in the Snow |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.81 (854 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1582340455 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 256 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2003-11-26 |
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This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India--the only woman amongst hundreds of monks---and began her battle against the prejudice that had excluded women from enlightenment for thousands of years.Thirteen years later, Diane Perry a.k.a. Tenzin Palmo secluded herself in a remote cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, where she stayed for twelve years. In her mountain retreat, she face 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.Tenzin 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. Sh
Editorial : It sounds like a legend out of medieval Tibet: the ascetic who leaves home to join the Buddhist order, then spends 12 years in a cave, 15 hours a day in a meditation box. This is no legend, but you could call Tenzin Palmo legendary in her single-minded pursuit of higher realizations. From the East End of London to halfway up the Himalayas, she is now back in society, attempting to pull medieval Tibetan Buddhism into the modern era--women's rights and all. As biographer Vickie Mackenzie says by way of background, a group of elite women practitioners called "Togdemnas" still existed just decades ago. Tenzin Palmo, having studied with her male counterparts, is now canvassing the planet, welcoming women into full participation in Tibetan Buddhism and building support for an academy of Togdemnas that she plans to establish in the Himalayas. Mackenzie helps raise awareness for women's roles in
I wish she'd write more!. 5 book because it has a writing section which my son needs to work on. But one wonders how much her own experience as an exile and someone who suffered from WWII and Nazi Germany colors how she interprets these ur-texts. This is the third book I read by this author ( that I discovered by chance ) . It's typical of Arendt that she sees thought in dramatic terms, always with a terminal at either end of time, existing not so much in essential terms but in contingent, always partial and always temporary states of being--human beings reacting to strain or stress, and in turn launching something new to spur new reaction. Rose may be one of the best fighters in her lifetime, but she is not boring or too serious, she is rather laid-back and quite funny at times. There are no limitations for personal use, and permission is granted for small scale commercial use in web de
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