Author: Sandra Benson Publisher: Interlink Books ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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Tales of the Golden Corpse is the first complete English version of the famous Tibetan folktales told to a young boy who has killed seven sorcerers in the defense of his Master. The boy must redeem himself by carrying a talking corpse full of wondrous tales on a long journey, without himself speaking a word. These 25 tales of intrigue and magic provide the reader with a window through which to view ancient Tibetan culture. Within them, you will encounter heroes and villains, fearsome witches, murderous demons, and clever tricksters with a uniquely Tibetan humor. Songs, riddles, jokes, and sayings make the stories come alive as they unfold against the background of everyday Tibet—its farmers and nomads, kings and magical beings.
Author: Pema Tseden Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 143847427X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 162
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Short stories that reflect the complexities of contemporary Tibetan life, written by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden. Enticement marks the English-language debut of prominent Tibetan writer and filmmaker Pema Tseden. This collection gathers together his most relevant and influential short stories, including “Tharlo,” which he adapted into an award-winning and internationally acclaimed film in 2015. Written originally in the Chinese and Tibetan languages, these stories make use of a variety of literary styles and sources, ranging from traditional Tibetan oral tales to magical realism, surrealism, and the theater of the absurd. They humanize the Tibetan experience by stepping away from patronizing, mystic, or idealized visions of Tibet to speak with empathy and humor about the real challenges faced by Tibetans in the age of globalization. Pema Tseden is Tibet’s most prestigious filmmaker and an accomplished and prolific fiction writer. He has released five major feature films to date: The Silent Holy Stones, The Search, Old Dog, The Sacred Arrow, and Tharlo. His films have won prestigious awards in China, Japan, and Taiwan. Most recently, Tharlo was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. His short stories have also been translated into French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Czech, and anthologies of his works have recently been published in France and Japan. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani is a Senior Lecturer of Chinese Language at Texas State University in San Marcos. She is the coeditor (with Lauran R. Hartley) of Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Michael Monhart is a freelance translator and psychoanalyst in New York City.
Author: Kate Bernheimer Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 1573661597 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 128
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As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods. Like her sisters, who appeared in Bernheimer’s first two novels (The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold), Lucy has a secret, but she is unable to fasten onto anything but brightness. Novelist Donna Tartt writes, “Lucy’s particular brand of optimism, blind to its own shadow, is very American—she is innocence holding itself apart so fastidiously that it becomes its opposite.” This novel is a perfect end to the Gold family series, and the perfect introduction, for new readers, to Bernheimer’s enchanting body of work.
Author: Haiwang Yuan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1610694716 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 233
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This collection of folktales provides readers with an extensive overview of the breadth of Tibetan culture, revealing the character of the region and its people as well as their traditional customs and values. Most Westerners are unlikely to travel to the mountainous region of East Asia and experience the Tibetan people and their culture directly. This book provides a way to experience and learn about this remote nation through carefully selected Tibetan folktales that provide readers with a unique glimpse into Tibet's culture, its people, and the land itself through the window of folklore. Providing a unique resource that can serve both as a storytime aid for educators who work with primary school students and a valuable reference for Eastern folklorists, Tibetan Folktales contains more than 30 traditional Tibetan stories that give readers a taste of the land, people, culture, history, religion, and psyche of this remote country. The tales are gathered from contemporary Tibetan storytellers and translated from written sources to represent the rich oral and written literary tradition of Tibet's culture. In addition, the book supplies tutorials for Tibetan crafts and games, a sample of recipes, and photographs and illustrations that create a multidimensional experience of Tibetan culture.
Author: Peter Schwieger Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824889304 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
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Conflict in a Buddhist Society presents a new way of looking at Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lamas (1642–1959). Although this era can be clearly delineated as a distinct period in the history of Tibet, many questions remain concerning the specific form of rule established. Author Peter Schwieger attempts to make transparent the complexity and dynamics of the Dalai Lamas’ domination using the work of sociologist Niklas Luhman (1927–1998) as his theoretical starting point. Luhman’s systems theory allows Schwieger to approach Tibetan history and culture as a remarkable effort to create—under times of great conflict and stress and using uncommon means—a stable social and political order. Such a methodology provides the distance needed to move beyond event-based narrative history and understand the structures that made social action possible in Tibet and the operations by which its society as a whole distinguished itself from its environment. Schwieger begins by asking the crucial question of how Tibet’s society dealt with conflict. The chapters that follow answer this question from various perspectives: history and memory; domination; hierarchy; center and periphery; semantics; morality and ethics; ritual; law; and war. Each reveals a different avenue for cross-cutting discourses in the historical and social sciences. Together, they provide a comprehensive picture of how conflicts were portrayed in Tibet society and how the manner in which they were handled stabilized the country for a considerable time but were ultimately unsuccessful in the face of radical upheavals in its environment. Situated at the intersection of systems theory, conflict theory, and Tibetan/Inner Asian history and society, Conflict in a Buddhist Society will be of considerable interest to students and scholars in these areas. Its theoretical rather than narrative-descriptive approach to the history of the three centuries of Dalai Lama rule will be welcomed as wide-ranging and insightful.
Author: Niu ZaiXiBu Publisher: Funstory ISBN: 1649759908 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 933
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My master is a Daoist, but he has the benevolence of a Buddha. I caught demons, but I cannot go through evil and evil. For the rest of my life, I have struggled with the heavens and earth, with the spirits of men. Terrifying wax boy, evil serpent rat dragon head, strange blood enemy twin fiends. They sprinkled darkness and nightmares over this land, I want to fight against them, because I'm Chen Xiliang, the disciple of the old smoke ghost, I'm the absolute Yin and Yang feng water master!
Author: Folk art Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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More than 60 fairytales and legends including both well-known and many that you have probably never heard before: The story of Prince Ahmed and the fairy Paribanou Beauty and the Beast The Black Bull of Norroway The Red-Etin The Witch In The Stone Boat How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu The Brown Bear of Norway The Brownie of Fern Glen (The Brownie of the Lake) The Golden Beetle or Why the Dog Hates the Cat The Talking Fish Lu-San, Daughter of Heaven The Nodding Tig The Widow's Son, A Scandinavian Tale The Wise Girl, A Serbian Story Oh! A Cossack Story The Magic Turban, the Magic Sword and the Magic Carpet, A Persian Story and many others. Their characteristics include the appearance of fantastic elements in the form of talking animals, magic, witches and giants, knights and heroes. Your children should be exposed to more interesting and multi-dimensional fairy tales from other countries.
Author: Yeshi Dorjee Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824865111 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 233
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A virtuous young woman journeys to the Land of the Dead to retrieve the still-beating heart of a king; a wily corpse-monster tricks his young captor into setting him free; a king falls under a curse that turns him into a cannibal; a shepherd who understands the speech of animals saves a princess from certain death. These are just a few of the wondrous tales that await readers of this collection of Tibetan Buddhist folktales. Fifteen stories are told for modern readers in a vivid, accessible style that reflects a centuries-old tradition of storytelling in the monasteries and marketplaces of Tibet. As a child growing up in a Buddhist monastery, Yeshi Dorjee would often coax the elderly lamas into telling him folktales. By turns thrilling, mysterious, clever, and often hilariously funny, the stories he narrates here also teach important lessons about mindfulness, compassion, and other key Buddhist principles. They will delight readers of all ages, scholars and students, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
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