![]() ![]() Within a few weeks, she had taken refuge and been ordained-the second Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She trained with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche briefly in London before traveling to Dalhousie, India, where she met her guru, Khamtrul Rinpoche. And what might have seemed like a teenager’s naïve remark soon became an imperative. ![]() “That book transformed my life completely,” Tenzin Palma reveals. Her mother, who had considerable appreciation for spirituality, encouraged the daughter’s interest. The announcement did not fall on deaf ears. Before finishing the borrowed book, she told her mother, “I’m a Buddhist.” In that randomly selected volume, she immediately recognized the path she had been longing to travel. ![]() Born Diane Perry in England, Tenzin Palma was eighteen when, during a family trip to Germany, she read a book about Buddhism entitled The Mind Unshaken. Is there such a thing as a calling? How do you find and recognize your teacher? Is a cave necessary? Can a woman reach enlightenment in one lifetime? Can a woman reach enlightenment at all? These are the brave questions she must have asked herself during her twelve years of solitary retreat. Cave in the Snow is the biography of Tenzin Palmo, who was the second Westerner to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist nun and who, like Milarepa, endured a twelve-year retreat in a Himalayan cave. ![]()
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