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Ge sar

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  • The Tibetan Ge sar epic is generally considered to be the Tibetan national epic. There has been a great deal of literature devoted to this subject, but here we only list the most useful guides to its special vocabulary.
  • Dkon mchog tshe brtan, Gling ge sar rgyal po'i sgrung gtam gyi tshig 'grel gsal sgron, Kan su'u mi rigs dpe skrun khang (Lanzhou 1986). See under Gnya' gong Dkon mchog tshe brtan (b. 1946). On the special vocabulary of the Ge sar epic literature.
  • Rudolf Kaschewsky and Pema Tsering, "Gesars Abwehrkampf gegen Kaschmir" Zentralasiatische Studien, vol. 6 (1972), glossary on pp. 394-398.
  • The Epic of Gesar with Tibetan Introduction by Lopon Pemala and English Introduction by R.A. Stein (Thimphu 1981), in 30 volumes. In vol. 29 is a vocabulary, which includes proper names.
  • Douglas J. Penick, The Warrior Song of King Gesar, Wisdom (Boston 1996).
  • R.A. Stein, L'Epopée tibétaine de Gesar dans le version lamaïque de Ling, (=Annales du Musée Guimet vol. 41) Presses Universitaires de France (Paris 1956). At pp. 351-399 are very useful vocabularies for Gesar epic.