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Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Monk (Panther S.) (Paperback)
$13.58 - Save $0.71 (4%) - RRP $14.29 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Fire Under the SnowThe autobiography of Palden Gyatso, who 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.
Full description- Publisher: The Harvill Press
- Published: 15 October 1998
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Political Oppression & Persecution | Demonstrations & Protest Movements | Asian History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9781860465093 ISBN 10: 1860465099
- Sales rank: 219,124
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Full description for Fire Under the Snow
This is the autobiography of The Venerable Palden Gyatso, arrested in 1959 after taking part in a non-violent demonstration for Tibetan freedom and sentenced to the first long years of his imprisonment. He made one attempt to escape but was recaptured within a mile of the border and then starved, tortured with electric shock batons and subjected to countless "struggle sessions" during the Cultural Revolution. In 1992, after 33 years imprisonment, Gyatso was released. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling the instruments of his torture with him, and began to reveal the true extent of the Chinese oppression in Tibet.
