The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya, Dalai Lama XIV

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya, Dalai Lama XIV

256 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective slow-paced
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Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would even...

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