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Geser Khan Summary
324 words, approx. 1 pages
Although Geser Khan may have been a historical personage, he is primarily known as a protective deity of warriors and herds in Mongolian religion, both Buddhism and Shamanism, as well as in literature. The numerous epics concerning Geser Khan are rich...
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Gesar Of Ling : Buddhist Terms
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A famous hero of Tibet. A very long poem of war and chivalry of the fifth century A.D. It has been called the Iliad of Central Asia. See David-Neel and Yongden, The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling...
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Gesar Summary
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GESAR. As is the case with most epic texts—Rāmāyaṇa, Gilgamesh, and King Arthur, for example—little is known of the historical and artistic genesis of the Gesar epic (Tibetan, Gling Ge sar gyi sgrung), a complex and...
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Epic of King Gesar Information
2,106 words, approx. 7 pages
The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. With about 140 Gesar ballad singers surviving today (including singers of Tibetan, Mongolian, Buryat and Tu ethnicities), it is prized as one of the few living epics...


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The Boston Globe
The American premiere of Lieberson's `King Gesar'
08/28/1993: 688 words, approx. 2 pages
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC In the Theater-Concert Hall at Tanglewood Thursday evening. LENOX -- In 1988 Peter Lieberson met Hans Werner Henze at Tanglewood, and Henze commissioned a piece from his younger colleague for the Munich Biennale; Henze thought it...
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The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta
10/01/2004: 741 words, approx. 3 pages
HERMAN VANSTIPHOUT, Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta (SBL Writings from the Ancient World 20; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003). Pp. xii + 176. Paper $24.95. Epics of Sumerian Kings is a new translation of four Sumerian epic poems, with...
 


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