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account of the first female monk to go into isolation, She talks about what it was like and how the the other monks did not treat her equal to her male counterparts.
This was in thes/s, and I would think that today it would be different, Very interesting read. What I expected from this book was essentially a biography of British woman who came a Tibetan Buddhist nun and contemplative long before it was fashionable to do so, but there's a lot more to it.


What I enjoyed most were the later sections of the book where it delved more into the role of women in Buddhism and particularly Tibetan Buddhism, the relationship between Buddhism and feminism, and the idea of Western Buddhism as a form that is comingintbeing, and one of its greatest contributions argues Tenzin Palmo will be giving women a greater spiritual role.


At times, I disagreed with Tenzin Palmo's feminism if she'd even call it that though she is fighting for the equality of women.
I felt she is overly critical of the anger of some feminists and that she lets some abusers, such as her teacher Choygam Trungpa, off the hook too easily.
Yes, I know Buddhism doesn't like anger, But I also think many women have had to work to claim/express anger even when it's warranted, as we live in a culture where women are not supposed to get angry.
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women must be given time to work through that anger, And while I want to leave open the possibility that women have agency to choose union with a noncelibate monk, I still think it's unethical for a monk in a position of power to make advances on young women coming to learn from him.


While I may disagree with her on some points, I nevertheless appreciated Tenzin Palmo's logical, unwavering position on women in Buddhism and the ability of women to attain the same spiritual depth as men.
The fact that she lived in a cave foryears proving everyone wrong who said women could not withstand such hardship had me cheering.
I also appreciated both her refusal of the idea that marriage and childbearing are always longings for women, as well as the depiction of her younger dating life and how she 'integrates' this passion into other parts of her life when she chooses celibacy.


Tibetan Buddhism doesn't resonate for me the way it does for Tenzin Palmo raised a Spiritualist, Reincarnation particularly the lineage of incarnate lamas, hell realms, the rainbow body phenomenon, and other such mystical/religious concepts tend to draw me away from Buddhism rather than the more philosophical traditions of Western Buddhist thinkers such as Stephen Batchelor who is discussed briefly in the overview of the tensions within Buddhism in the west.
That said, it was interesting to learn a bit about Tibetan buddhism,

I particularly enjoyed Tenzin Palmo's teachings at the end of the audiobook, which were very practical if not radically different from those of other western teachers e.
g. Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron. I am curious to seek out more of her teachings, Fantastic! This book or story is a true treasure, Its one of the most moving books Ive read in a long time, Its one that Ill read again and again,

This story is about a woman, Tenzin Palmo, who grew up in England and discovered the Buddhist faith through reading.
She became so inspired by it, she dedicated her whole life to the practice, At a young age, she left home and traveled to India to study the Tibetan tradition of the Buddhist faith.
From there, she met and convinced a lama to accept her into his Tibetan Monastery which was located,feet up in the Himalayan mountains in the north part of India.


The monastery, like all the other monasteries, was only occupied by men, which had its challenges and the men didnt see her as an equal.
They certainly tried, but the culture wasnt that supportive back in thes nor is it today, She was a true maverick and never gave up,

She was passionate and determined to learn everything she could about becoming enlightened, so she knew she needed solitude and silence to achieve this dream.
The monastery wasnt working for her, so she moved into a cave, which was quite a distance north of the monastery and was very small,by, and had no running water or electricity.
It was very primitive and didnt even have a bed to sleep on or a toilet to use, She slept in a box and used a container as a toilet,

The location of her cave was brutal with winters lastingmonths and temperatures dropping as low asbelow.
Many thought she couldnt do it, but she ended up living there, by herself, for more than twelve years, This book shares many stories about her experiences, and it also shares her understanding of enlightenment and how precious meditation was to her development.
She was known to mediate forhours a day, year after year, She also shared that she never got bored, She loved her life and was very happy,

She even had to travel a quarter of a mile just to get water and she had to carry that water back to her cave.
Her understanding of lifes challenges and her description of her enlightenment touched my soul, Shes a sage in my book, Youre in my prayers Tenzin Palmo, Thank you so much for sharing your life with us,
Deeply inspiring! A really interesting story let down by some clunky ol' writing, This is about a buddhist nun who lived in a cave for twelve years, although it isn't written by the nun which would have been better but by a journalist who met up with her.
The nun's story is fascinating, but I could have done with more cave and less talking about a whole pile of other seemingly unrelated stuff in the last few chapters.
Onwards! I agree with the prior reviewer who said that the author's tone is more than a bit breathless and awestruck.
This is not to say that Palmo didn't accomplish an amazing feat, What I appreciated the most was Palmo's certitude, This book is written about Tenzin Palmo, a Buddhist nun, with the primary emphasis on heryears living in a cave contemplating, meditating, practicing, and surviving.
A Western woman seeking enlightenment in a predominately male world, Her story and her teachings are both inspirational and insightful, I would not call myself a Buddhist, but I do greatly value the teachings and practices of this,religion, Very interesting story of one of the more remarkable people of our time, Ven Tenzin Palmo, Although the author's style is a little 'peppered' and 'breathless' along with preferring to equate Buddhism with miracles, wizardry and deities, she generally does tell a good story, and has absorbed many key facets of Tibetan Buddhism, and it's Western reception in general, along with key issues for women practitioners.
Positives also include a lot of Tenzin Palmo's teachings/words during private interviews, and giving some thought to the future of her work and Western Buddhism.
Im not sure I would've read this book so fast if not for the audio version, The writing is very plain and contains lots of attributions such as “she stated” and “she commented,” like a newspaper article.
Also, for those who are unable to read books that take the supernatural seriously and Im one such person, it can be difficult to accept all of the Tibetan Buddhism mysticism.
All that said, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and learning about Tenzin Palmos journey from young woman in England to Buddhist nun.
What makes the book so engaging, in addition to adventures like being buried in her cave under an avalanche, is its strong and unapologetic feminism.
She vows to attain enlightenment in female form “no matter how many lifetimes it takes, ” I especially liked when she made the Dalai Lama cry when she explained all of the sexism women must face when pursuing Tibetan Buddhism.
Excerpt: “What she had promised was to become a female Buddha, and female Buddhas like female Christs and female Mohammeds were decidedly thin on the ground.
Certainly there had been plenty of acclaimed women mystics and saints in all parts of the world, but the full flowering of human divinity had, for the past few thousand years at least, been deemed the exclusive domain of the male.
The female body, for some reason, had been seen as an unfit or unworthy vessel to contain the most sacred.
Now Tenzin Palmo was publicly announcing she was intending to overthrow all that, ” The audio version includes two halfhour talks given by Tenzin Palmo in Israel, Grade: A I read this book inwhen I was in Dharamsala, At that time I was just starting with meditation, And she has an amazing story to share of dedication, willpower and compassion, So in, I am reading this book again, Still, her story is amazing and it also inspires me, To do long retreats I only diddays, She spendsyears in a cave in India meditating and sleeping in a Tibetan meditation box, Amazing woman! There can be no 'review' as such of the story of a fishmonger's daughter from London who has relentlessly pursued selfrealisation with a commitment most of us can scarcely imagine.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a beacon signalling THAT unparalleled bravery and ultimate freedom that a human lifetime can be used to access.
While the most obviously 'impressive' part of the story is heryears living alone in a Himalayan cave, meditatinghours a day, sleeping in a sitting position foryears yes right in her meditation box and eating largely dal, rice and turnips, her overarching commitment to finding freedom right from her late teens is what stands out even more for me.
To make a choice as a young woman that truth and freedom come before pleasure and ease, and to go after that doggedly.
It's so very difficult, and yet we are fortunate enough to have beings like Tenzin Palmo among us to show us it can be done.

Defying scriptures that consider birth as a male to be highly advantageous in pursuing spiritual progress, here is a very special being who, horrified at the sexism even within spiritual practice, has taken a solemn vow to attain enlightenment in the female form.

To be read, reread, and meditated upon as often as possible, Ive always been fascinated by Ani Tenzin Palmo, Twelve years meditating in a Himalayan cave!! And during the “prime” of her life too!! Who does that, you wonder This engrossing biography answers that its a woman so dedicated to spiritual attainment that, despite the considerable obstacles of being a woman and a Westerner in thes, shes willing to commit and give her life to attaining enlightenment in female form.
Her purpose in allowing the author access to her life was to inspire others to commit to their own spiritual attainment and this book achieves that.
I was recommended 'Cave in the Snow' when I complained that I cound't find writings of spiritually enlightened women, "Why didn't Devi Lopamudra and Devi Gargi and other realized women write any instruction manual for women All I see are scriptures written by men and experiences of male sadhakas and siddhas", was my question and reason for disappointment.


This book is a biography of bhiksuni Tenzin Palmo, Palmo came to India from England in, following her calling for Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, She wasback then. As she pursued her path, she was shocked to discover the patriarchal mindset of fellow male Buddhist practitioners who considered female body to be inferior to reach enlightenment.
She was so appalled by the discrimination that she vowed to be enlightened in the female body, irrespective of the number of births it would take her.


On her lama's guru instructions, Palmo lived in solitude in a cave in Himachal Pradesh and practiced meditation foryears before coming back and helping others with the Dharma practice.
Now she also runs a nunnery in Himachal Pradesh to support female monastics of Kagyu lineage,

To my delight, Cave in the snow not only raised the questions which I had, but in Palmo's emotional challenges during her early days, I discovered a woman with whom I can relate.
It gave me clarity, comfort and inspiration which I was unable to find reading the experiences of men,

I definitely recommend this book to women sadhakas of all path, Ova knjiga mogla bi oduševiti praktikante i simpatizere budizma,mene je na trenutke davila tim tumačenjima o transcedentalnom.
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Zanimalo me kako se jedna žena može povući na dvanaest godina osame,u špilju nam u potpuno nemogućim uvjetima.
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A,ipak nije tako, . . špilju su joj prethodno malo "pripremili":uzidali je,postavili vrata i prozor, Sasvim solidna,iako,vrlo malo sobica koja ima čak i malu peć! Hranu su joj dostavljali doduše s nekim prekidima.
. . znači nije bila gola špilja kakvu si svaki čitatelj predoči u glavi!
Naravno,to ne umanjuje njene zasluge za promicanjem žena u istočnjačkoj religiji,čak do najviše razine.

Na trenutke mi je bilo i sebično to njezino samotnjaštvo i bježanje od ljudi ,nedostatak želje da zasnuje obitelj,rodi.
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Po povratku iz špilje i sama je shvatila da je puno propustila izbjegavajući posjetiti i živjeti na zapadu.

Pogledala sam i nekoliko isječaka njezinih predavanja na internetu, Divna je,smirena i puna empatije za svijet oko sebe, Voli ljude i rado se druži,
Za mene ipak malo "predaleka" i bez osobitog utjecaja na moja razmišljanja,
Young girls are generally discouraged from extreme forms of expression, and this applies to forms of devotion, This biography of Tenzin Palmo by Vicki Mackenzie documents the transformation a young, fun loving English girl into a Tibetan Buddhist nun, in defiance of tradition and with the full support of her mother who encouraged her spiritual quest.


In fact, reading this intimate account, even with all of the austere practices TP took on, she never lost her sense of fun nor her lighthearted positivity.
Of her twelve years of living alone in a remote cave in the Himalayas, sleeping in a box, sometimes ill but always curious, grateful, and accepting of whatever circumstances, she simply said:
It's very good to have an opportunity to be alone with oneself and see who one really is behind all the masks.
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Back in the world, a role model and teacher, she offers this assurance:
The practice of being in the moment, of opening the heart, can be done wherever we are.
it makes no difference. p.