First hardcover edition published in 1998 by Bloomsbury Publishing in Great Britain and U.S.

"Tenzim Palmo's quest for enlightenment"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-210).

"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. She faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, near-starvation and avalanches; she grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three-foot square - she never lay down. Her goal was to attain enlightenment as a woman."--Jacket.