Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie

Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie

Dianne Perry led an average childhood in London's East End until, in her teens, she became convinced there must be a spiritual dimension to life of a kind unavailable to her. After reading a book on Buddhism she realized that this was what she had been seeking and left England for India at the age of twenty.

After considerable searching she entered a monastery. The only woman among hundreds of men, she grew determined to break down the prejudices that had excluded women from the path to enlightenment for thousands of years. She left after six years, set on attaining enlightenment in the body of a woman; a totally radical objective. She decided to seclude herself in a remote cave, 12,00 feet up in the Himalayas. For twelve years she faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, floods 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 determined to build a convent in northern India, and to revive the Togdenma lineage, a long-forgotten female spiritual elite. From living as a mendicant of $80 a year, she became a globe-trotting fundraiser. Tenzin Palmo has agreed to tell her story only to Vicki Mackenzie.

Vicki Mackenzie is a British journalist with over forty years of experience writing for the national and international press. Her work has featured in publications such as The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and a variety of other publications. Since 1976, she has studied and practiced Buddhism, and she is the author of Cave in the Snow.

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ISBN 13	9781582340043
ISBN 10	1582340048
Title	Cave in the Snow
Author	Vicki Mackenzie
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury USA
Year published	1998-09-15
Number of pages	256
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