Fuego bajo la nieve: memorias de un prisionero tibetano

Synopsis of Fuego bajo la nieve: memorias de un prisionero tibetano

«Fuego bajo la nieve» is the memoir by Palden Gyatso, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (286 pages, in Spanish).

Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan monk born in 1933, recounts in the first person how he was arrested and imprisoned for decades as a political prisoner. The work recalls twentieth-century Tibet, the repression he suffered and his struggle to preserve freedom and faith, based on an autobiographical testimony born of his own experience.

Text written with the collaboration of Tsering Shakya, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama and translation by Ana Alcaina; the English original is titled 'Fire under the snow'.

Recommended for readers interested in memoirs, Asian history and testimonies of political prisoners; also for those seeking an approach to Tibetan Buddhism from personal experience.