''Fire Under the Snow'' is a 2008 documentary film on the life of

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...

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Palden Gyatso Palden Gyatso (1933, Panam, Tibet – 30 November 2018, Dharamshala, India, bo, དཔལ་ལྡན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ dpal ldan rgya mtsho) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Arrested for protesting during the Chinese invasion of Tibet, he sp ...

, recounting 33 years of his life spent as a political prisoner in Chinese prisons and labor camps. The documentary is directed by Japanese filmmaker Makoto Sasa and based on the book by Palden Gyatso in Tibetan language.

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