permaculture

[Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>]

Robin,  I couldn't find the request in this letter.  What do they need?
Scott

At 08:39 AM 11/27/00 +1100, you wrote:
> A PDC graduate, Ingrid, sent me this request - I'm circulating it hoping
> there's the right person out there somewhere...
>
>
>   Tenzin Palmo was born during world war 2 in London. She became a
> Tibetan Buddhist nun when she was 18 (or young anyway). At one stage she
> spent 12 years in solitary meditation in the Himalayas. I have only heard
> her speak once on the radio in an interview, and then I heard her speak
> at the Theosophical society where I was running the shop book stall.Quite
> a remarkable person. If you put Tenzin Palmo into an internet browser,
> you'll find a website which has details about the Nunnery. Tenzin Palmo
> dislikes publicity and crowds, (I supose that reflects on her ability to
> be alone for 12 years!),but in the course of setting up the Nunnery, has
> been on a lecture tour in the last few months and has come to terms with
> having a website based on her name. The long and short of all this is
> that she seems to be a woman of integrity.
>     Monica Joyce is the Project Director for setting up the Nunnery. She
> left a fairly high position with Random House publishers in order to help
> Tenzin in this task. SHe does live in Australia some of the time, but for
> the most of the year is in northern India. As you would probably summise,
> contact with northern India phone and net wise is much slower than what
> we know here, and although post gets through fairly reliably (so Monica
> said), it too is pretty slow.
>     If you pass on Monicas details to whoever, it could be helpful to
> remind her of "the conversation with Ingrid at Adyar" so that she has
> some idea of how the individual/group came to have her contact details.
> Shes had so much on her plate with the tour that she might be nonplussed
> to suddenly be contacted out of the blue by Permaculture people she's
> never heard of.
>
> Contact details for Monica Joyce:
> Email for Monica and Tenzin Palmo:  monicajoyce@hotmail.com
>
>
> Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery
> Tashi Jong
> P.O. Taragarh
> Distt Kangra HP 176 081
> India
> Phone +91 1894 62617
>
> address in Australia:
> 7a Tessa St,
> Chatswood, 2067 NSW
> +61 2 9419 2096  ph
> +61 2 9419 2092  fax
>
>
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>
> Djanbung Gardens Permaculture Education Centre
> home to:
> Permaculture Education
> ERDA Institute Trust
> Nimbin Eco-Village Project Office
> Robyn Francis - permaculture designer & educator
> PO Box 379, Nimbin NSW 2480 Australia
> permed@nor.com.au  www.earthwise.org.au
>
>
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