Palden Gyatso was born in 1933 and raised in a small Tibetan village. Palden's autobiography, Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Monk, was published in 1997.
Palden Gyatso was born in 1933 and raised in a small Tibetan village. At the age of eighteen he became an ordained Buddhist Monk at one of Tibet's most famous monasteries, Drepung Monastery. Palden was arrested in 1959 after taking part in a non-violent demonstration for Tibetan independence. After a failed escape bid he was starved and tortured. Following his release in 1992, after 33 years of captivity, he fled to India and began to reveal the true extent of the Chinese oppression in Tibet. The Venerable Palden Gyatso now lives in Dharamsala in India.
Fire Under The Snow book. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet
Fire Under The Snow book. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life and irrefutable testimony to the appalling suffering of the Tibetan nation at the hands of the Chinese.
His autobiography Fire Under the Snow is also known as The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk. Palden Gyatso was born in 1933 in the Tibetan village of Panam, located on the Nyangchu River between Gyantse and Shigatse. He was the subject of the 2008 documentary film Fire Under the Snow. In 1943, he entered Gadong Monastery as a novice monk.
Books related to Fire Under The Snow. My Spiritual Autobiography.
In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet . Books related to Fire Under The Snow. Across Many Mountains.
Palden Gyatso speaks at Oslo Freedom Forum 2009 Fire Under the Snow ww. sloFreedomForum
Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet
Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner.
Fire Under the Snow is a 2008 documentary film on the life of Tibetan monk, Palden Gyatso, recounting 33-years of his life spent as a political prisoner in Chinese prisons and labor camps. Country of Publication.