Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun

Second Hand

Excellent Condition

A first-person account of the invasion of Tibet, Ani Pachen's story picks up where Heinrich Harrer's "Seven Year in Tibet" leaves off.

A memoir which recalls the author's childhood in Tibet as the daughter of a local Chieftan and the tragic day her father died when the Chinese invaded destroying its Buddhist culture and heritage.

Although in training to be a nun, Ani Pachen lead a resistance movement against the Chinese that resulted in her imprisonment and torture for 21 years.

On her release she fled across the Himalayas to India and the Dalai Lama in Dharamasala, where she now lives.