Inspiring Women: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
It’s the end of the work week, and I’m very tired. During times of stress, I imagine going on retreat much like Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, spending an accumulated twelve years of solitary meditation in a cave dwelling. Ahhhh! Of course, the fantasy and the reality are very different things, but her early challenges battling the sexism of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic tradition, and her triumph in creating a modern nunnery for women, is an inspiration.
I enjoyed Diane MacKenzie’s book about Palmo, “Cave in the Snow”, and have Palmo’s book “Reflections on a Mountain Lake” waiting in the precious book space on my bedside table. I plan to read Palmo’s collected works as as time goes on. She almost makes me want to take vows… almost.
- Her biography, and MySpace (!!) page.
- Review: Cave in the Snow, by Diane MacKenzie
- The nunnery Palmo founded.
- Purchase the book about her journey, Cave in the Snow, through Alibris.
- Purchase Cave in the Snow, and other books of her collected talks through Palmo’s nunnery, and support her work.
- Check out additional feminist Buddhist books.
