Cave In the Snow

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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Map of Lahoul; Chapter One: The Meeting; Chapter Two: The Wrong Place; Chapter Three: The Dawning -- Finding the Path; Chapter Four: The First Step; Chapter Five: The Guru; Chapter Six: Fear of the Feminine; Chapter Seven: Lahoul; Chapter Eight: The Cave; Chapter Nine: Facing Death; Chapter Ten: Yogini; Chapter Eleven: Womanâ#x80;#x99;s Way; Chapter Twelve: Coming Out; Chapter Thirteen: The Vision; Chapter Fourteen: The Teacher; Chapter Fifteen: Challenges; Chapter Sixteen: Is a Cave Necessary?; Chapter Seventeen: Now; Bibliography; Acknowledgements.;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. 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. 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. 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.