About this title: 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.
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very good copy-clean with no markings and minimal wear due to use read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 1998-09-15
ISBN-13:9781582340043ISBN:1582340048
Description: Good. Tight, bright, pages clear and tanning, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, small edge tear at upper page edge of dust jacket, front end paper has been removed, small puncture on title page, dust jacket clipped, read more
Edition: First edition. Us ed. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (NY)
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781582340043ISBN:1582340048
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 210 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781582340043ISBN:1582340048
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine bumped. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781582340043ISBN:1582340048
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Illustrated. First U.S. edition. A Very Fine hardbound copy in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, no remainder mark. read more
Edition: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781582340043ISBN:1582340048
Description: GOOD PLUS in VERY GOOD jacket. Light shelfwear to book and DJ; no ownership markings; a few underlined passages; binding sound; price intact on DJ flap. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 9/18/1999
ISBN-13:9781582340456ISBN:1582340455
Description: Fine. 1582340455 Clean pages, tightly bound, gift quality. 100% satisfaction guarantee. USPS delivery confirmation on every order. All used books are cleaned individually. We ship daily. read more
Description: Like New. It sounds like a legend out of medieval Tibet: the ascetic who leaves home to join the Buddhist order, then spends 12 years in a cave, 15 hours a day in a meditation box. This is no legend, but you could call Tenzin Palmo legendary in her single-minded pursuit of higher realizations. From the East End of London to halfway up the Himalayas, she is now back in society, attempting to pull medieval Tibetan Buddhism into the modern era--women's rights and all. As biographer Vickie ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781582340456ISBN:1582340455
Description: New. "In 1976 Diane Perry, by then known by her Tibetan name, Tenzin Palmo, secluded herself in a remote cave, 13, 200 feet up in the Himalayas, cut off from the world by mountains and snow. There she engaged in twelve years of intense Buddhist meditation. read more
"This novel chronicles a Western woman's quest for enlightenment, where she spends years in a cave on a mountain in Tibet. This is a moving and inspiring true story."
"Amazing story and written quite well. Not as involving as I had hoped, a bit dry. Gives a bit of background info on Tenzin, skims some Buddhist history and philosophy but research for this books seems to have been extensive and time consuming."
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