Cave in the Snow : A Western Womans Quest for Enlightenment

The story of tenzin palmo, an englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from londons east end, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the himalayas and became a worldrenowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment diane perry grew up in londons east end at the age of 18 however, she read a book on buddhism and realised that this might fill a longsensed 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 longforgotten female spiritual elite