The Many Faces of King Gesar: Tibetan and Central Asian Studies in Homage to Rolf A. Stein (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004471658)

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-No? Robert, Coll鑒e 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.

Author: Matthew T. Kapstein
ISBN-10: 9004471650
ISBN-13: 9789004471658
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2022
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover