Palden Gyatso is a Buddhist monk who spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps, where he was regularly tortured, interrogated, indoctrinated, and persecuted for refusing to recant his religious and political beliefs. After his release in 1992, he managed to smuggle Chinese instruments of torture out of the country as material proof of human rights abuses in Tibet. His memoir Fire Under the Snow, bears witness to the physical and mental anguish endured by Tibetan political prisoners and proudly upholds the resilience of the human spirit.