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    A play about Tibet, in Tibetan and by a Tibetan theatre group: Pah-Lak is a must-see

    Before the lights went down, Tibet Theatre group’s Lhakpa Tsering announced to the houseful Prithvi Theatre that this production of the play “Pah-Lak”, is the first time that an entire Tibetan troupe is telling their story in their language, and taking it through India, in 63 years (since the 1959 Tibet uprising against Chinese rule that led to the Dalai Lama’s exile in India). In the play, a young Tibetan rebels against her father (a bitter, CIA-trained resistance fighter) and joins a Buddhist nunnery.But when she loses the nunnery and her peace-loving mentor to Chinese political “re-education”, she immolates herself as an act of non-violent resistance—only to survive and find…