Cave in the Snow - Pre-loved
Author: Vicki Mackenzie
đź“–Â Format: Softcover
đź“„ Page Count: 210
đź“ŹÂ Dimensions: Approx. 23cm x 15.5cm x 2cm
⚖️ Weight: Approx. 400g
   Publisher: Bloomsbury
Gently pre-loved, this book remains in good condition and is ready to inspire its next reader.
Back Cover:
HOW AN ENGLISHWOMAN, THE DAUGHTER OF A FISHMONGER FROM LONDON’S EAST END, HAS BECOME A BUDDHIST LEGEND AND A CHAMPION OF THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO ATTAIN SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT
In 1976 Diane Perry, by then known by her Tibetan name, Tenzin Palmo, secluded herself in a remote cave, 13,200 feet up in the Himalayas, cut off from the world by mountains and snow. There she engaged in twelve years of intense Buddhist meditation. She faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, near-starvation and avalanches; she grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three-feet-square – she never lay down. Her goal was to gain Enlightenment as a woman.
In 1988 she emerged from the cave with a vision to build a convent in northern India dedicated to helping women to achieve spiritual excellence.
From living as a mendicant on ÂŁ50 a year, she became a globe-trotting fundraiser, talking to thousands of people from the fount of her profound wisdom. As such, Tenzin Palmo had come full circle: being of the world, leaving it, and then returning once more to help it.
Tenzin Palmo tells her story to Vicki Mackenzie with candour, humour and clarity. She speaks of the challenges she faced, the hardships she endured, her spiritual aspirations and the insights she experienced in the cave. She also reveals the inner conflict between her love for a man and her calling. Cave in the Snow is a gripping story of courage and phenomenal persistence. Throughout, Tenzin Palmo proves that she is truly a heroine of our time, a torchbearer in the last frontier of women's liberation – that of equal spiritual rights.
A proportion of the royalties from the sale of this book will be donated towards the completion of Tenzin Palmo’s convent.
VICKI MACKENZIE joined the news desk of the Sun in Sydney as a cadet reporter. She soon moved on to London’s Fleet Street, where she became a features writer – first on the Daily Sketch and then on the Daily Mail. She went on to write for a number of national newspapers, including the Times and the Observer, and magazines. For several years she was also a contributor at the Australian Consolidated Press bureau in Fleet Street. She is the author of the best-selling Reincarnation: The Boy Lama and its sequel, Reborn in the West: The Reincarnation Masters. She now divides her time between Australia and England.
