Cave In The Snow - by Vicki MacKenzie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The incredible story of Diane Perry (Tenzin Palmo), who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas as she sought spiritual enlightenment.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.<br/>At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India--the only woman amongst hundreds of monks---and began her battle against the prejudice that had excluded women from enlightenment for thousands of years.<br/> <br/>Thirteen years later, Diane Perry a.k.a. Tenzin Palmo secluded herself in a remote cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, where she stayed for twelve years. In her mountain retreat, she face 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.<br/> <br/>Tenzin 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. She has traveled around the world to find support for her cause, meeting with spiritual leaders from the Pope to Desmond Tutu. She agreed to tell her story only to Vicky Mackenzie and a portion of the royalties from this book will help towards the completion of her convent. <br/><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"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-foot square - she never lay down. Her goal was to attain enlightenment as a woman."--BOOK JACKET.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Vicki Mackenzie</b> has been a features writer for <i>The Daily Sketch </i>and <i>The Daily Mail </i>and has written for <i>The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Daily Express, The Mail on Sunday</i>, and many national Australian magazines.</p>
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