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The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

by Palden Gyatso

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1998
  • PAPER

Finally released by the Chinese authorities in 1992 after 25 years in prisons and labor camps, Palden Gyatso writes with simple eloquence of the takeover of his country, destruction of monasteries and his own determination to hold onto his beliefs.  (TBT94, $14.00)


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