The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

ISBN: 0802135749

Author: Gyatso, Palden

Condition: Used

Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of reform that would eventually affect all of Tibets citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1967, the Chinese destroyed monasteries across Tibet and forced thousands of monks into labor camps and prisons. Gyatso spent the next 25 years of his life enduring interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatsos story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibets proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide.