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Gyatso, Palden

 
9781860465093: Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1860465099 ISBN 13 : 9781860465093
Editeur : Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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. Since his escape from Chinese-occupied Tibet in 1992, he has travelled widely in Europe and the USA with Amnesty and other support organisations. In 1995 he testified at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.

Palden's autobiography, Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Monk, was published in 1997.

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1860465099
ISBN 13 
9781860465093
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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