Cave in the snow : a western woman's quest for enlightenment / Vicki Mackenzie.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: ix, 210 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780747543893Subject(s): Palmo, Tenzin, 1943- | Buddhist women -- Religious life. -- Himalaya mountainsDDC classification: 294.3Includes bibliography: pages [209]-210.
Ch 1. The meeting Ch 2. The wrong place Ch 3. The dawning - finding the path Ch 4. The first step Ch 5. The guru Ch 6. Fear of the feminine Ch 7. Lahoul Ch 8. The cave Ch 9. Facing death Ch 10. Yogini Ch 11. Women's way Ch 12. Coming out Ch 13. The vision Ch 14. The teacher Ch 15. Challenges Ch 16. Is a cave necessary? Ch 17. Now
"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....Her goal was to attain enlightenment as a woman."
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