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How an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London’s East End, has become a Buddhist legend and a champion for the rights of woman to attain spiritual enlightenment.
In 1976 Diane Perry, by then known by her Tibetan name, Tenzin Palmo, secluded herself in a remote cave, 13200 feet up in the Himalayas, cut off from the world by mountains and snow. There she engaged in twelve years of intense Buddhist meditation. She faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, near-starvation and avalanches; she grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden box, three foot square she never lay down. her goal was to attain enlightenment as a woman.
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