Vicki Mackenzie

Vicki Mackenzie (born 1947), an author and journalist, was born in England and spent much of her early life in Australia. The daughter of a naval officer, she graduated from Queensland University and became a reporter at the "Sun" newspaper in Sydney.

Later she moved on to London where she worked as a features writer on the "Daily Sketch" and the "Daily Mail". She went on to write for the "Sunday Times", "The Observer", the "Daily Telegraph", the "Sunday Telegraph", the "Daily Express", the "Mail on Sunday" and many national magazines. [cite book | last = Mackenzie | first = Vicki | authorlink = Vicki Mackenzie | coauthors = | title = Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment | publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing | date = 1998 | location = | pages = jacket flap | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-1582340456 ]

Since taking a month-long meditation course in Nepal in 1976, her primary interest has been to make the profundity of Buddhist philosophy accessible to the general public. [ cite web|url=http://www.terrapinn.com/2005/mandp/SpeakerList.stm |title=1st International Conference on Mind and Its Potential |accessdate=2007-12-20 |date=2005 ] Her books on Buddhism and reincarnation include:

*"Reincarnation: The Boy Lama"
*"Reborn in the West: The Reincarnation Masters"
*"Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment" (a biography of Tenzin Palmo)
*"Why Buddhism?: Westerners in Search of Wisdom"
*"Child of Tibet" (Co-authored with Sonam Yangchen)

ee also

*Tenzin Palmo
*Lama Osel
*Lama Yeshe
*Tibetan Buddhism

References

External links

* [http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?PID=8495 "Cave in the Snow: A Woman's Quest for Enlightenment"]
* [http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?PID=14826 "Reincarnation: The Boy Lama"]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1569248044 "Reborn in the West: The Reincarnation Masters"]
* [http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?PID=3333 "Why Buddhism? Westerners in Search of Wisdom"]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s445732.htm "The Spirit of Things"]