Diane Perry led an average childhood in London's East End until, in her teens, in the 1950s, she converted to Buddhism. Journalist Vicki Mackenzie explores Perry's quest for spiritual enlightenment in a Buddhist monastery in India and the 12 years she spent in a remote cave, 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
Flinders draws riveting portraits of women who are the spiritual great-granddaughters of the female mystics and saints profiled in "Enduring Grace," tracing the spiritual "mother line" of these holy women of centuries past to four contemporary women: Jane Goodall, Etty Hillesum, Sister Helen Prejean, and Tenzin Palmo.
The biography of the Englishwoman who has become a world-renowned spiritual leader and a champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Following Tenzin Palmo's life from England to India, including her seclusion in a remote cave for 12 years, leading to her decision to found a convent to revive the Togdenma lineage.
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