Jetsunma tenzin palmo biography channel

She stockpiled for winter, when the cave was snowbound. She slept and meditated upright in a meditation box.

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Despite many hardships and life-threatening experiences, Tenzin Palmo thrived in her solitary spiritual practice and lived in the cave for 12 years, from the ages of 33 to For the first 9 years she occasionally had visitors or took trips away from the cave, while the last 3 years were spent in strict retreat. Her retreat ended in summer and after 24 years in India, she returned to Europe to stay with friends in Assisi, Italy.

There she rediscovered her western roots and started to accept requests to teach. Before H. Since her retreat Tenzin Palmo has taken on the cause of equal rights and opportunities for Buddhist nuns. In support of this, she spent several years travelling the world fund raising for a new Buddhist nunnery, as her root lama had asked her to do.

Inthe Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery was opened with the purpose of giving education and training to women from Tibet and the Himalayan border regions. At this nunnery, Tenzin Palmo also plans to re-establish the extinct lineage of togdenmas, a Drukpa Kagyu yogini order. Bhikshuni Wu-yin, Vinaya Master. It was formed in the autumn ofafter the Dalai Lama told Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen that the Western bhikshunis should be more involved in helping to establish the bhikshuni ordination in the Tibetan tradition.

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Cave in the Snow. Great Britain: Bloomsbury. ISBN Retrieved 5 April BBC News. November 23, Retrieved External links [ edit ]. Online texts [ edit ]. Media [ edit ]. Tibetan Buddhism. Milarepa Karmapa Thang Tong Gyalpo. Gyubum Kangyur Tengyur Terma Tibetan canon.