Palden Gyatso

Since his escape from Chinese-occupied Tibet, Palden Gyatso, the author of Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, has lived in Dharamasala, in northern India. He has traveled widely in Europe and the United States to call attention to the plight of the hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars in Tibet. In 1995 he gave evidence at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.