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| Author(s) : Mackenzie, Vicki |
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| ISBN : 0747543895 | | EAN : 9780747543893 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 214 | | Size : 197 x 128mm | | Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing | | Published : 1999 |
Category : Biography
Category 2 : Women in Buddhism
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Synopsis:
The extraordinary life story of Diane Perry (Tenzin Palmo), one of the first Westerners to become a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and her 12 years of intense meditation spent in a cave high up in the Himalayas.
Born the daughter of a fishmonger in London's East End, the author got ordained in 1964 and made a vow to attain enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it took. So in 1976 she secluded herself in a remote cave, 13,200 feet up in the mountains, cut off from the world. There she engaged in her meditation practice. She faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, and avalanches and she grew her own food and slept in a traditional Tibetan wooden meditation box, three foot square - never lying down.
"To my mind worldly life is an escape. When you have a problem you can turn on the television, phone a friend, go out for a coffee. In a cave, however, you have no one to turn to but yourself. When problems arise and things get tough you have no choice but to go through with them, and come out the other side. In a cave you face your own nature in the raw, you have to find a way of working with it and dealing with it." Tenzin Palmo. |
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