 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Home > English > Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture > King Gesar |
|
Gesar is a heroic epic collectively created by China's Tibetans. Originating in the folk oral traditions, Gesar passed down through Tibetan generations in a combination of song and narration for over 1,000 years... |
 |
|
The beautiful girl is in Ling Kingdom, Queen Zholmo is resplendent and bright. Her step forward is worth 100 strong horses... |
|
|
The epic, King Gesar, was born between the first and sixth centuries, namely between the fall of the clan society to the establishment of slavery society. During the period, battles between clans, tribes and ethnic groups broke out frequently.They serve as the source of King Gesar... |
|
|
The story was set far in the distant past, when the common people of the Tibetan plateau were subjected to natural disasters and calamities across their lands. Demons and spirits run wild. The Goddess of Mercy, in the hope of helping the people... |
|
|
The world-famous King Gesar, a long and valuable heroic epic created by the Tibetan people over a considerable long period of time, is a rare literary treasure of China and the entire world. However, it has all along been passed down by folk artists orally... |
|
|
With collaboration and collection, The Life of King Gesar has become truly of epic proportion. The entire work is longer and has a greater number of verses than the world's other five great epics combined... |
|
|
Gesar is a great heroic epic created collectively by Tibetans. For thousands of years, it has been circulating far and wide within Tibetan areas and has been loved by Tibetans... |
|
|
The popularity and immortality of The Life of King Gesar should be credited to the direct creators, inheritors, popularists and outstanding folk artists responsible for the work. They are real artists and outstanding poets of the masses... |
|
|
This national Tibetan epic recounts the legends, richly interwoven with myths and tales of magic, relating to the deeds of the pre-Buddhist hero, King Gesar of Ling. Gifted with supernatural powers, he is able to rescue and protect his people time... |
|
|
In 1984 when I went to Lhasa for the Gesar Singing Party, I came across Sangzhub whose performance lied deeply embedded in my mind. In 1985 when he went to Beijing for further trip to Chifeng, Inner Mongolia... |
|
|
Samzhub, 79, cannot read. But this does not prevent him from talking and singing the "Gesar," an ancient Tibetan epic portraying the legendary hero Gesar. Samzhub can sing nearly 20 million words of the epic... |
|
|
An unexpected piece of information that surfaced during an interview in Lhasa last year aroused our curiosity and initiated a journey into the mountains of Medro Gongkar in Tibet to see a legendary "Gesar" artist... |
|
|
Zhumo was the concubine of King Gesar of the State of Ling. She owned three cranes. When the Hor King Baizam made inroads into Ling and carried her off, she refused to be his concubine... |
|
|
Scholars believe King Gesar was created during the primitive Tibetan tribal period, some 2,000 years ago. It has since been passed down orally. In the 19th century, some woodblock printed editions were created, but they were circulated in small area... |
|
|
Scholars have long shown keen interest in the source and content of Gesar, in the epic King Gesar. But this has led to many conflicting views. In fact, the hero in the epic is not always named as Gesar. Apart from this difference, there are variations in the content of the name... |
|
|
The purpose of this article is to offer a brief introduction to studies of the bards of the epic of King Gesar. I shall try to bring up their situation, classification, their forms of chanting and their contribution to the Gesar epic... |
|
|
The portrayal of characters through dialogue, actions, and plot twists is characteristic of the epic. Based on the society that gave it birth, the epic sums up important stages in the development of Tibetan history... |
|
|
As long ago as the Tubo Kingdom, the epic was spread to neighboring countries and regions around the Himalayas. And after the 13th century, with the spread of Buddhism in Mongolian inhabited areas, a large number of Tibetan scriptures... |
|
|
When the national conference on philosophy and social sciences was held in Guilin, Guangxi, in 1983, it was decided that efforts be made to gather and compile King Gesar as a national project during the Sixth Five-Year Plan... |
|
|
The Chinese government has set up special institutions for the collection, editing, translation and research of the three major epics of ethnic minorities: Gesar of the Tibetan, Jianggar of the Mongolians and Manas of the Kirgiz... |
|
About Us | Contact Us | Site Map | Legal Warning
Copyrightt© China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture ( CAPDTC )
E-mail: web@tibetculture.net