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Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an
ordained Buddhist monk eighteen years later. Through sheer
determination, he won a place as a student at Drepung Monastery,
one of Tibet's "Three Greats", where he came to spiritual and
intellectual maturity. However, Tibet was enduring political
changes that would soon alter his life irrevocably. When Communist
China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of land
reform and "thought reform" that would eventually affect all of
Tibet's citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1959,
along with thousands of other monks, Palden Gyatso was forced into
labor camps and prisons. He would spend the next thirty-three years
of his life being tortured, interrogated, and persecuted simply for
the strength of his beliefs, for being a monk. In 1992 Palden
Gyatso was released from prison and escaped across the Himalayas to
India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. Since
then, he has devoted himself to revealing the extent of Chinese
oppression in Tibet and the atrocities he endured. Palden Gyatso's
story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit and to
the strength of Tibet's proud civilization, faced with cultural
genocide.
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