FILE -- Tibetan Buddhist monk and former political prisoner Palden Gyatso, in New York, June 25, 2008. Gyatso, who defied Chinese control of his country, and who then fled to tell the world his story of more than three decades of hardship in Chinese prisons and labor camps, died on Nov. 30, 2018 in Dharamsala, India. He was 85. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)