The New Kadampa Tradition is an international association of Mahayana Buddhist meditation centers that follow the Kadampa Buddhist tradition founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Repression and Freedom
Life in a modern Burmese prison

THE LIZARD CAGE
Karen Connelly
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008
439 pp., $14.00 (paper)
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