[Buddha-l] Enthronment of Jetsunbma Tenzin Palmo

[Christopher Fynn]

Hold on - Gelongma Tenzin Palmo has just been  given the title
"Jetsunma" which means something like "Venerable Lady" by the head of the
Tibetan branch of the Middle Drukpa Kagyu School.  While this is a great
and well deserved honour calling it an "enthronement" is rather over the
top - and I think Ven. Tenzin Palmo herself would not want anyone to think
of it as anything like that.

In 1974 I visited Tenzin in her cave (an overhanging rock with a mud wall built 
round the front to form a small retreat place) which was at a great altitude in 
the Himalyan valley of Lahoul - about an hour's walk from anyone else. The year 
before her retreat had been buried under an avalanche and she couldn't light a 
fire for weeks.

The "tub" may refer to the meditation seat she sat and slept in which has wood 
on all sides so you have to sit upright even when you sleep - these are about 
the size of a bathtub - but not as long.


- Chris


Jessica Marie Falcone wrote:
> :)
> Vicki Mackenzie wrote a book about Tenzin Palmo's many years in ... a
> cave.  It must have been a mistranslation of some kind.
> 
> The book is:
> Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jessica
> 
> X-POSTED--
> Never heard of this nun--sounds like some kind of progress.
> But 12 years in a....... tub??
> Joanna
> ==============================
> 
> 

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