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Karma Wangmo is the first person in the United States to attempt and complete the 12 year retreat; doing so after having been ordained as a Buddhist nun, by H.H. the 16th Karmapa, March 1976, in Nepal.karmawangmo.com
Karma Wangmo completed three Ngondros' (preliminary practices) and a 210 day isolated Nyungne (thousand - armed chenrezig, fasting ritual) in a tree house in the Catskill Mountains, for the benefit of all sentient beings
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But perhaps her life is mostly undocumented or unacknowledged because she chose a path of solitude and isolation.
What did that accomplish - in true, un-romanticized reality - for the world around her? To me, it seems such a waste of a lifetime; unless of course her goal for this lifetime was simply a spiritual one?
I don't really know it's hard to judge a life such as hers. When she came out of retreat she is quoted as saying, Perhaps her story is not yet finished.
Here is an interview.
tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/3-yoginis.html#karma
Thanx for the link.
I find Yogins to be fascinating. As a Ngondro practitioner, myself, someone who can complete the practice not once but three times, seems almost superhuman. Her 210-day fasting practice is truly wonderful and to then complete a 12-year retreat?
Amazing. Simply amazing.
I would have liked to have known her in this life.
May all beings benfit.
OM AMI DEWA HRIH
Marvelous words from a marvelous lady. She seemed by her interview and history to be a simple spirit with a simple practice, and the world needs all those we can get. Did living in a hut without human contact for twelve years prove anything besides the near-infinite capacity of the mind to adapt? Don't know. That's not my type of practice. But I do know her story touched me. Whatever your practice, can you do it with the simple determination of this woman?