Cave in the Snow

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The incredible story of Buddhist legend Tenzin Palmo who became a champion for the rights of women to attain spiritual enlightenment.

At the age of twenty, 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 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.

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. She has traveled around the world to find support for her cause, meeting with spiritual leaders from the Pope to Desmond Tutu. She agreed to tell her story only to Vicky Mackenzie and a portion of the royalties from this book will help towards the completion of her convent.

"Cave in the Snow is full of such extraordinary insights. It is a desert island book—one we can't very well live without." —Tricycle

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