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

Author: Vicki MacKenzieBrand: imustiBinding: PaperbackRelease Date: 01-12-1999model number: YI2513174Part Number: colour and b&w illusDetails: The story of tenzin palmo, an englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from londons 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 londons east end at the age of 18 however, she read a book on buddhism and realised 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 hideaway she fac