Cave in the Snow
Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment
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Narrated by:
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Georgina Sutton
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Vicki Mackenzie
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Tenzin Palmo
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By:
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Vicki Mackenzie
About this listen
Includes a bonus track of Tenzin Palmo introducing a retreat.
This is the story of Tenzin Palmo, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who became a Tibetan nun. After meditating for 12 years in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, she became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment.
Diane Perry grew up in London's 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 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.
In 1988, she 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. Despite her international teaching schedule, Tenzin Palmo maintains a deep commitment to her nunnery, Dongyu Gatsal Ling, in Himachal Pradesh.
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- Formersw
- 16-01-23
Really enjoyed this
I found this very interesting. I really enjoyed hearing the story of Tenzin Palmo and hearing her speak at the end. Lots of thought provoking moments. Would recommend 🙏
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- Chrissie
- 06-06-22
Amazing, but almost unbelievable
I enjoyed listening to this book, but parts of it blew my mind and I had to have a break and think about what I'd read. Tenzin's story was incredible. Still making me think.
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- CaptKirk
- 03-08-20
Absolutely love it
I have listened to it 3 times so far - truely inspiring. If you intetested in buddhism, meditation or just the east it is a must read
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- Anonymous User
- 12-02-23
why was it removed from Audible? wonderful one!
A classic, very inspiring woman and the story is really uncommon. I would hear it again and again..
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- Rachel Redford
- 21-10-15
East End fish-shop to meditation box!
Born in 1943, Tenzin Palmo is a world-renowned spiritual leader, but she started life as Diane Perry living up above her father's fish-shop in the East End. Her mother dabbled in spiritualism - Diane was used to witnessing levitation - but otherwise there was nothing unusual about her upbringing. There certainly is about Tenzin Palmo, as Diane Perry became.
She has devoted herself with spectacular single mindedness to seeking Enlightenment and to the tenets of Buddhism. During a long spiritual career in which she has championed the right of women to achieve spiritual Enlightenment, for 12 years she lived in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas enduring temperatures well below zero, near suffocation during snowfalls and exercising the most stringent form of meditation. For months at a time she completed 12 hours of meditation in every 24 inside a meditation box. The experience is beyond the imagining of most people, but Tenzin Palmo who hungers for meaning and believes her way of life can help all suffering people and bring them to bliss is no ordinary person.
Whether you are Buddhist or not, whether you embrace another religion or no religion at all, you cannot fail to be deeply impressed by this astonishing testament. Do you feel sympathy with Tenzin's mother who couldn't help exclaiming the first time she saw her daughter's shaved head, 'My poor little shorn lamb!'? Do you believe in the rainbow death when a devout person shrinks so much after death that all that remains are bits of hair and nails as bursts of strange coloured lights emanate from where the body lies? It doesn't matter whether you believe or not, but your ideas will be stimulated. You will meet a woman with astounding determination who will show you the beauties of Buddhist philosophy which has no God the Father or the equivalent at its centre but what she calls 'a genderless absolute'.
Her biography is produced by the newly launched Dharma Audiobooks which specialises in Buddhist topics from all traditions.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-06-18
With interest...
Wow, very enlightening, pure bliss with a greater view being a woman and the strive for equal rights.
Really lovely.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-05-22
Very inspirational
Very inspirational for a spiritual seeker.
Gives you an insight of all the hardship one has to face on a spiritual journey.
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- Toni
- 07-01-23
highly recommended
this is one I'll listen to again and again. Inspiring, heartfelt and filled with wisdom ❤️
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- Jacqueline E
- 20-12-23
A well worth read & much enjoyable
Inspiring & Educational on so many levels. There’s no way of summing it up properly. Just listen to it 🙏🏼
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-08-19
Inspirational story of a spiritual heroine
She faces real struggles on her path to realisation. The story of the cave and a western woman in a male dominated spiritual culture is amazing. The true meaning and purpose of her quest will continue to resonate for many, many years.
Wonderful.
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