The autobiography of a Tibetan monk

by Palden Gyatso.

1997 232 pages eng

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 enduri…