Reflections on a Mountain Lake

Book Cover - Reflections on a Mountain Lake

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (formerly Vicky MacKenzie of Cave in the Snow) has written a new book with Teachings on Practical Buddhism.

This broad-ranging collection of Dharma teachings by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo addresses topics of common concern to Buddhist practitioners from all traditions—including the particular challenges facing Western practitioners, what to expect of a teacher-student relationship, gender issues and the role of women, how to approach meditation practice, and much more. Personable, witty, and profound, Tenzin Palmo presents an inspiring and no-nonsense view of Buddhist practice that comes from a heart infused with wisdom and compassion.

Chapters include,

↠ A Western Yogini

↠ Motivation and Practice

↠ Ethics and the Three Trainings

↠ The Six Realms

↠ Women and the Path

↠ Shanmatha, or Calm Abiding

↠ Vipashyana or Insight

↠ Awareness

↠ Difficult Points for Westerners

↠ Tonglen – the Practice of Giving and Taking

↠ The Nature of Mind

↠ The Role of the Spiritual Master

↠ Vajrayana

↠ Visualising the Deity

↠ Photos

↠ Glossary of Technical Terms

↠ The Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery Project

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo was raised in London and became a Buddhist while still in her teens. At the age of twenty she traveled to India, becoming one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Buddhist nun. The international bestseller Cave in the Snow chronicles her twelve years of seclusion in a remote cave. Deeply concerned with the plight of Buddhist nuns, she established Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in India. In 2008 His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, head of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage, gave her the rare title of Jetsunma (Venerable Master).