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The Many Faces of King Gesar: Tibetan and Central Asian Studies in Homage to Rolf A. Stein

By Matthew T. Kapstein , Charles Ramble

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2022
ISBN
2021053658, 2021053659, 9789004471658, 9789004503465
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8532701 bytes)
Series
Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 51
Pages
365\366
Topic
Literature
Time added
2023-02-04 10:55:34

Description

The Tibetan Gesar epic, considered “the world’s longest poem,” has been the object of countless retellings, translations, and academic studies in the two centuries since it was first introduced to European readers. In The Many Faces of Ling Gesar, its many aspects—historical, cultural, and literary—are surveyed for the first time in a single volume in English, addressed to both general readers and specialists. The original scholarship presented here, by international experts in Tibetan Studies, honours the contributions of Rolf A. Stein (1911-1999), whose studies of the Tibetan epic are the enduring standard in this field. With a foreword by Jean-Noël Robert, Collège de France. Contributors are: Anne-Marie Blondeau, Chopa Dondrup, Estelle Dryland, Solomon George FitzHerbert, Gregory Forgues, Frances Garrett, Frantz Grenet, Lama Jabb, Matthew W. King, Norbu Wangdan, Geoffrey Samuel, Siddiq Wahid, Wang Guoming, Yang Enhong.

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