The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
by Palden Gyatso
2020-09-04 12:56:42
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
by Palden Gyatso
2020-09-04 12:56:42
âWith this memoir by a âsimple monkâ who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard.â âThe New York Times Book Review Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933...
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âWith this memoir by a âsimple monkâ who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard.â âThe New York Times Book Review Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at eighteenâjust as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of âreformâ that would eventually affect all of Tibetâs 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 twenty-five years of his life enduring interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatsoâs story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibetâs proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide. âTo readers of this memoir, however untraveled, Tibet will never again seem remote or unfamiliar. . . . Gyatso reminds us that the language of suffering is universal.â âLibrary Journal âHas the ring of undeniable truth. . . . Palden Gyatsoâs clear-sighted eloquence (in Tsering Shakyaâs fluent translation) makes his tale even more engrossing.â âSan Francisco Chronicle
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