Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment
How a Westerner, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, has become a Buddhist legend and a champion of the right of women to attain spiritual enlightenment.รก
[...] Tenzin Palmo tells her story to Vicki Mackenzie with candor, humor, and clarity. She speaks of the challenges she faced, the hardships she endured, her spiritual aspirations, and the insights she experienced in the cave. She also reveals the inner conflict between her love for a man and her calling. Cave in the Snow is a gripping story of courage and phenomenal persistence. Throughout, Tenzin Palmo proves that she is truly a heroine of our time, a torchbearer in the last frontier of women's liberation - that of equal spiritual rights.
Cave in the Snow, Vicki Mackenzie, Bloomsbury, 210 pages, $24.95
