This is the incredible story of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (Diane Perry), a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
She is the Founder and Director of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery | Garden of the Authentic Lineage, completed in 2000 at Tashi Jong, HP India.

At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India—the only woman amongst hundreds of monks—-and began her battle against the prejudice that had excluded women from enlightenment for thousands of years. Thirteen years later, Tenzin Palmo secluded herself in a remote cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, where she stayed for twelve years. In her mountain retreat, she face unimaginable cold, wild animals, floods, snow and rockfalls, grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three feet square. She never lay down.

Tenzin emerged from the cave with a determination to build a Nunnery in northern India to revive the Togdenma lineage, a long-forgotten female spiritual elite. She has traveled around the world to find support for her cause, meeting with spiritual leaders from the Pope to Desmond Tutu. She agreed to tell her story only to Vicky Mackenzie and a portion of the royalties from this book will help towards the upkeep of her nunnery.