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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo



Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (born Diane Perry) is an English Tibetan Buddhist author, teacher, and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in India. She was one of the first westerners in the world to be ordained as a Tibetan monastic, and she remains dedicated to promoting the rights of female spiritual practitioners.

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Tenzin Palmo: The Nature of the Mind

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Lojong Teaching by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Part 1 of 4

JetsunmaTenzin Palmo taught at the K J Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies on 18th November, 2015.

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Into the Heart of Life

In this book, one of the most respected Western figures of contemporary Buddhism, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, offers insights gleaned from more than forty years of engagement with Buddhist practice.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen we are angry, when we are excited, when we are depressed, when we are elated, we are completely submerged in and identified with those thoughts and feelings. This is why we suffer. We suffer because we are completely identified with our thoughts and feelings and we think this is me.

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An Interview with Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo

“The head nun just started crying. Of course I like to make offerings and to honor. But in 20 years of doing this … it’s all been males. This is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to honor a female.” - Head nun, Drupka nunnery about Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

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Get Real! Wise Women Speak

Explores the value and meaning of women's lives as they age.

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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - Patience Is the Antidote to Anger

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is one of only a handful of western woman to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. She is recognized as a powerful proponent of the universal need of individuals to find their voices so that all human beings can "realize their full potential.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageUltimately, there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, its not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence.

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The Power of Love: A Transformed Heart Changes the World

An inspiring chronicle of life-changing encounters, personal transformation, and a vision of love that transcends the everyday definition, to embrace universal kindness and compassion, based on the knowledge that all beings are one family and that our capacity to love is one of the world’s most...

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Feminism Awakens in Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation

Are Jetsunma, her nuns and artists achieving something truly radical and unprecedented at DGL? In the context of tradition-laden India, Nepal and Bhutan, they are. - G. Roger Denson

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