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Fire Under The Snow

Fire Under The Snow

Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner

Summary

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.

Reviews

  • In writing this enduring memoir of extraordinary suffering, resistance and endurance, he has testified not only to the pain of countless individuals but to the devastation of a nation
    Judith Shapiro, New York Times

About the author

Gyatso Palden

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