The Epic of Gesar of Ling
Gesar's Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King
The epic of Gesar has been the national treasure of Tibet for almost a thousand years. An open canon of tales about a superhuman warrior-king, the epic is still a living oral tradition, included on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book is a translation of the beginning portion of this enormous corpus, covering all the events from Gesar's divine conception to his human birth and mischievous childhood to his coronation as king of Ling.Born in the pure lands the son of two wisdom deities, Gesar takes rebirth in the human realm in order to defeat the demon kings who had taken over the empires of A…
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Weitere Autoren: Chonam, Lama (Übers.) / Khandro, Sangye (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8348-2750-9
- EAN: 9780834827509
- Produktnummer: 21089123
- Verlag: Shambhala
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 680 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'470 KB
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ROBIN KORNMAN (1947-2007) is best known for his work as a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, as well as for being a founding member of the Nalanda Translation Committee. Up until his death, he spent many years working on this translation of the epic of Gesar. A longtime student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, he earned his PhD from Princeton University and was a professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. SANGYE KHANDRO has translated many important Tibetan Buddhist texts. She is a cofounder of Light of Berotsana, a nonprofit organization for translators of Tibetan texts. LAMA CHÖNAM is a Tibetan teacher who received twenty years of traditional training as a monk in Tibet. He is a translator and adviser to the Nalanda Translation Committee and a cofounder of Light of Berotsana.
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