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