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Johannesburg Screening
Cave in the Snow
The official film on the extraordinary life of Tenzin Palmo
Inspired by the international best-selling biography
Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
produced by Ellenor Cox for Firelight Productions, Australia, 2003. Friday 7 November at 6.30pm Sage Healing & Training Centre 5 Geers Ave, Greenside, 2034 Tel 011 486 1096 / mobile 083 325 8495 (Belinda Peralta) Email belinda@iburst.co.za Cost: R35 includes refreshments afterwards Running time: 52 minutes.  | Why and how did an Englishwoman Diane Perry, daughter of a fishmonger from London’s East End, become a Buddhist legend and a champion for women to attain spiritual enlightenment? What was it she was looking for?
“From a very early age I believed we were inherently perfect. I asked everybody: What is perfection? How do we attain it?” This deep yearning for perfection led her to commit her life to attain enlightenment in the body of a woman. Enlightenment: the highest state of evolution humankind could ever achieve.
The second westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun (“the biggest blessing of my life”) Tenzin Palmo secluded herself in a cave in the Himalayas where she spent 12 years doing intensive spiritual practices. She faced unimaginable cold, avalanches, blizzards, wolves, grew her own food – and was very happy.
Since 1999 she has taken on the daunting task of establishing a nunnery in northern India for the indigenous young women who seek spiritual and intellectual realisation. | | As international fund-raiser for the Dongyu Gatsal Ling nunnery, Tenzin Palmo has become a burgundy-and-saffron-clad globetrotter. "I had planned to stay in my cave," she said, “but life has a way of serving you up with what you need rather than what you think you want." |
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CAPE TOWN:
Labia on Orange
Last Sunday of every month at 6.15pm plus some additional bonus screenings.
Tel 021 424 5927
www.labia.co.za |
PLETTENBERG BAY:
Sat Chit Anand Retreat Centre
Last Thursday of month at 7.00pm. Cost R40 includes teas and cake afterwards.
Longstone Road, Plett.
Tel 044 533 0453.
satchitanand@global.co.za www.satchitanand.co.za |
JOHANNESBURG:
The Bioscope
286 Fox Street, JohannesburgFor info on screenings please mail info@thebioscope.co.za |
SIMONS TOWN
New: First Wednesday of the new month two screenings at Simon's Town museum: 11am and 6.30pm.
Watch this space! Call Simon's Town musuem at 021 786 3046
Wed 4 August
Simon’s Town Museum
Book with Museum at 021 786 3046 or just arrive!
Tuesdays with Morrie
Morning show: 11am
Ticket: Morning R20.
Facing Death: the Life of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Evening show: 6.30pm
R30 includes a glass of wine /juice before the screening from 6.00pm.
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