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We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.
Tenzin Palmo
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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.
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All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.
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Still all the tulkus being born are men.
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