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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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Taming the Monkey Mind with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Tibetan Buddhist nun Venerable Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo shares basic Meditation techniques to calm the mind and to focus better.

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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
2020
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe are each living in our own soap opera. We do not see things as they really are. We see only our interpretations. This is because our minds are always so busy. . . . But when the mind calms down, it becomes clear.

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Buddha’s Daughters: Teachings from Women Who Are Shaping Buddhism in the West

Buddhism began to take root in the West at just the same time that women’s voices were arising to find expression here—after millennia of being relegated to the background.

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Andrea Miller
2014
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Tenzin Palmo Jetsunma - the Difference Between Genuine Love and Attachment

Tenzin Palmo Jetsunma interviewed about romanticism that makes us confuse genuine love with attachment - and how it causes suffering in relationships.

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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
2016
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Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West

What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years, and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the...

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Michaela Haas, His Holiness the Karmapa (foreword)
2013
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Dealing with Depression | Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Depression is very common, even if many people don't talk about it.

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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
2016
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Shamatha Meditation: Q&A with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Kiva Bottero sits down with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo to get her thoughts on shamatha meditation, also known as mindfulness meditation.

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Kiva Bottero
2014
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The Role of Women in Buddhism - Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

The role and status of women in religion is often a controversial subject. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo looks at the position of women in Buddhism, both from an historical and a current perspective.

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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
2016
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Waking Up to Patriarchy

You might think being a nun is very difficult and restrictive, but for them, ironically, it’s actually freedom from the alternative, which would be to get married, have a child every other year, work in the fields, work in the home, take care of their aged families, often while married to someone...

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Lion's Roar Staff
2016
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The Eight Worldly Concerns

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, the renowned nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, will lead us on a study of the Eight Worldly Concerns—which we might also call the eight anxieties or “hang-ups.”

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Tricycle
2011
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