She Led 600 Fighters Into Battle. Then Spent 21 Years in a Chinese Prison Praying in the Dark.

She was training to be a Buddhist nun when China invaded Tibet. When her father died, she led 600 fighters on horseback into the mountains to resist.They captured her.For 21 years, Ani Pachen endured leg irons, underground cells, and systematic torture in Chinese prisons. In an underground cell barely larger than her body, she completed 100,000 Buddhist prostrations in the dark.Not to survive. Because her captors had put her there to extinguish her — and she had decided to burn brighter.She walked out of the Himalayas at 56 still fighting.Lines Across Asia — real people, impossible odds, Asia's forgotten history.