Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - Cave in the Snow

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - Cave in the Snow
English | 51mn | XviD | 720x576 | 1074kbps | 25fps | MP3 | 192kbps | 465 MB
Genre: Documentary

In 1964 English born Diane Perry, in pursuit of ‘perfection’, travelled to India by boat. After meeting Khamtrul Rinpoche, the man who was to become her teacher, she became ordained as a Buddhist nun at the age of twenty-one and took the name of Tenzin Palmo. She was one of the first western woman to ever do so.

Just over a decade later, after battling with blatant sexism within the monastic order, she 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 a twelve-year intensive retreat. She faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, near starvation and avalanches; she grew her own food, meditated for twelve hours a day and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three-feet-square – she never lay down and spoke to nobody. Her goal was to attain enlightenment as a woman.

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