![]() ![]() 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. 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 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. 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 1963, at the age of 20, she went to India, where she eventually entered a monastery. 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. ![]() 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.ĭiane Perry grew up in London's East End. This is the story of Tenzin Palmo, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who became a Tibetan nun. ![]() Includes a bonus track of Tenzin Palmo introducing a retreat. ![]()
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