Tenzin Palmo
Ven. Tenzin Palmo is one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. In 2000, she founded the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery to give young nuns of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage the opportunity to realize their intellectual and spiritual potential.
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Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo describes how the infinite, primordial awareness that lies behind the mind and its sense of duality is the key to experiencing oneness.
Tenzin Palmo believes that the greatest threat to the world is the rising middle classes of Asia who long for the same, inherently unsustainable levels of comfort as privileged Westerners.
Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo explains two essentials of Buddhist practice: developing mindfulness and learning consideration for others.
What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? Where do we find solutions that can help us build the future that serves us all?
At the age of 20, Ven. Tenzin Palmo left her home in London for India to pursue her spiritual path. In 1976 she found a cave where she lived for 12 years.