The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

Palden Gyatso with Tsering Shakya (Translator)

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 eventual...

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