Weri Tribe Hero Epic "Gesar" Thangka English Version

Author: Jangba Gyatso / Zhou Aiming (editors)
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The intention of our compilation of this illustrated album of the epic lies in the following considerations: It is a long-standing culture and tradition shared by different countries around the world to adapt classic works into light, popular forms. Not only foreign masterpieces, such as the Bible and Buddhist Scriptures, but also China’s four famous classical novels, including Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, and Dream of the Red Chamber, have all been popularized in light forms. Even The Communist Manifesto, a great work dubbed by Lenin as the “Bible of the working class,” has also been introduced to the mass working class and laborers through an illustrated format. Therefore, we believe that the epic, Gesar, should also be popularized in a direct manner. Furthermore, except for Tibetan prints, there was a complete Mandarin version of the epic, not to mention foreign-language versions, so the introduction of the epic in different models became necessary and urgent. Based on these facts, we decided to compile this illustrated album of Gesar.