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Palden Gyatso: a Tibetan Buddhist monk who survived 33 years of religious and cultural oppression in Chinese prisons and labour camps. They used various forms of torture as they tried to force him to accept the Chinese Communist ideology. He refused... that's right... for more than three decades.
He now travels the world, showing people various torture devices like the ones used on him while he was imprisoned. He devotes his life to exposing human rights violations committed by the Chinese.
Real life, yes. Tough, yes. Bad? Well, to the Chinese, maybe...
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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