Film Screening: "Fire Under the Snow"

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Fire Under The Snow

Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist
Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration
and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and
sentenced to hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and
family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Fire Under the Snow reaches back
to Palden's birth in 1933 and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the
Chinese invasion.

Screening begins with an introduction and discussion of the film by director and producer Makoto Sasa.

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