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	epic poetry - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons.
		The longest epic (and, in general, work of literature) of all time is the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar, which has been collected as a work composed of roughly 120 volumes, with more than one million verses, totaling over 20 million words, making it 25 times the size of the ancient Greek epic, the Iliad.
		By extension, the word "epic" is used in reference to any fictional work that follows the broad stylistic and thematic conventions of epic poetry, namely high language, historical or pseudo-historical settings, and hero-worship.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/epic-poetry (777 words)

	Epic poetry - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature.
		The term "epic" however has been recycled to refer to prose works, films, and similar works which are characterized by great length, multiple settings, large numbers of characters, or long span of time involved.
		Invocatio (prayer to the muse [of the epic]), Prepositio (introduction of the epic's theme), Enumeratio (counting the fighting armys / heroes), In medias res (start from the middle of an event), Deus ex machina (interruption / miracle from a god), Anticipatio (prediction), and Ephiteton ornans (permanent attributes of the hero[es]).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Epics (757 words)

	Epic of King Gesar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Epic of King Gesar is the premier epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia.
		With about 140 Gesar ballad singers surviving today (including singers of Tibetan, Mongolian and Tu ethnicities), it is prized as one of the last living epics (although parts of the Turkic Epic of Manas are also still regularly performed by manaschi in Kyrgyzstan).
		Gesar's "soul mountain", in turn, was the famous snow peak of Golog, Amnye Machen, in modern Qinghai Province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epic_of_King_Gesar (1238 words)

	King Gesar Tibet Travel Service,Tibet Tour,free tibet,Tibet Map,tibetan
		King Gesar, the greatest work of Tibetan literature, is easily the longest epic in the world, which has also appeared in ballads among the Mongols and Tus.
		King Gesar of the Ling Kingdom was born in the 11th century as the son of the supreme god, Indira.
		Gesar sent Sinba, a former general of the State of Hor, to win over Yulha Toju, the son of Sadain, while the king led his troops to guard the saltern.
	www.57tibet.com /tibettravel/Html/2006329113315-1.Html (2908 words)

	Epic poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the West, the Iliad, the Bible, Odyssey and Nibelungenlied; and in the East, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Shahnama and Epic of King Gesar are often cited as examples of the epic genre.
		The term "epic" however has been recycled to refer to prose works, films, and similar works which are characterized by great length, multiple settings, large numbers of characters, or long span of time involved.
		Invocation (prayer to the inspiring muse [of the epic]), praepositio (introduction of the epic's theme), enumeratio (counting the fighting heroes and their armies), the principles termed "in medias res" (starting from the middle of an event), Deus ex machina (divine intervention), anticipatio (prediction), and Epithet (permanent attributes of a heroic figure).
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/Epic_poem (958 words)

	Epic_of_king_gesar info here at en.articles-on-parenting.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Epic of King Gesar is the premier epic poem of Tibet and of Central Asia.
		Tales of King Gesar are too fashionable in Mongolia, and have travelled as far west as the Caspian Sea, jurisdictioning Europe with the Kalmyk people, who too profess Tibetan Buddhism as their religion.
		The Second King of Bhutan retained a Gesar singer as a full-time entertainer for the royal court, and listening to the Epic of Gesar was said to be the king's admired edification.
	en.articles-on-parenting.info /Epic_of_King_Gesar (1394 words)

	Tibetan Literature - Tibet Travel Information
		King Gesar is a heroic epic created collectively by the Tibetans during the 11th to 13th century.
		The theme of the epic centers on the life, deeds, and merits of the divine hero, Gesar, whose mission from heaven to this world was to rescue his loved ones from earthly calamities, unify disparate tribes, defeat ravaging monsters, and aid the weak and the poor.
		Gesar grew up to win a great horse race, defeating his uncle and other tribal chiefs, for which the prize was the crown, and marriage with Qomo, the most beautiful girl in the tribe.
	www.tibettravel.info /tibetan-arts/tibetan-literature.html (1502 words)

	China Tibet Information Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		King Gesar has been collectively crated by the masses of the people on the basis of ancient myths, legends, stories, ballads, proverbs and so on since the 11th century.
		As a heroic epic, it tells the history of fights of King Gesar throughout his life, and at the same time it unfolds from all dimensions the ancient social life of the ethnic group of Tibetan.
		King Gesar is an epic that is orally transmitted for generations.
	www.tibetinfor.com.cn /english/zt/culture/20040200451392747.htm (837 words)

	CHINA'S TIBET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		he epic, King Gesar, was born between the first and sixth centuries, namely between the fall of the clan society to the establishment of slavery society.
		Gesar took part, and defeated his uncle and many generals of the tribe to be the sweeping winner.
		Gesar sent Sinba, a general formerly of the State of Hor, to win over Yulha Toju, son of Sadain, and he himself led his troops to guard the saltern.
	www.ctibet.org.cn /2001/01-2/cap05_4.htm (1108 words)

	CHINA'S TIBET
		Toinzhub Garbo was the youngest son of the king of the White Brahma.
		In the epic, Gesar was born in "Ling Garbo'', of the State of Ling, a place which means "white place.'' Gesar' s acts in aiding the poor and the weak, and in fighting demons, is mentioned as a "white cause.'' (Gyuaide Chapter)
		According to the epic, Gesar was the son of the God and king of the State of Ling.
	www.ctibet.org.cn /2001/01-2/cap05_5.htm (532 words)

	The Story of King Gesar
		Originally it was a lengthy epic poem about a Tibetan national hero, and its adaptation to the Quyi form helped to root it deeply in the Tibetan community, where it was handed down orally from generation to generation.
		Since the epic is rich in content, its structure and musical composition are rich or bulky in nature.
		Gesar was the son of the God of Heaven.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_40144.htm (453 words)

	Mandala: The Epic of King Gesar
		King Gesar ruled the kingdom of Ling in eastern Tibet around eight centuries ago.
		One of King Gesar's missions on earth was to defeat the demonic kingdoms that surrounded Ling.
		Six years after Ling's defeat, King Gesar's senses was finally awakened by one of his warriors, whose head was cut off in the battle, so he took rebirth in the form of a headless falcon in order to look for his king.
	www.kalachakra.org /articles/gesar.shtml (833 words)

	humanrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ancient king, Gesar, may have been dead for a thousand years, but he lives on in the Gesar ballad singers who rove the Qinghai-Tibetan and the Mongolian Plateaus, constantly reciting and developing "The Life of King Gesar", the world's longest epic poem.
		Senior Gesar ballad singers, mostly from impoverished herdsmen's families, made a living by singing the epic before 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded.
		Zaba, a noted epic performer set foot on all the holy mountains and lakes in Tibet, together with disciples, leaving the epic echoing everywhere he went.
	www.humanrights-china.org /news/2002-7-10/Local200271090037.htm (465 words)

	China Tibet Information Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although there are certain volumes of hand-written copies and woodcut copies of the epic recorded by scholars or Buddhist monks, it is still difficult to spread the epic in a written form among the people, for most of them are illiterates.
		The bards are the bearers of the Gesar epic, because they have kept so many volumes of the epic by their memories.
		Their mysterious way of passing on the epic from generation to generation, complete with forms of chanting, rich melodies, old language, and special chanting complexes are valuable materials for scholars who are in search of the origin and circulation of the Gesar epic.
	www.tibetinfor.com.cn /english/zt/xz_arts/200402004520165516.htm (1335 words)

	Longest heroic epic, King Gesar keeps on lengthening (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Chokpa Gatru, director of Qinghai Gesar Research Institute, with the research and collection for Gesar as well as the discovering of Gesar artists, the content for Gesar is keeping on increasing.
		Gesar is the name of a Tibetan hero and the epic is for discribing his heroic story which is popular among the areas for Tibetan, Mongolian, Tu ethnic group and Naxi ethnic group.
		Though the history of this epic is over 1,000 years, it still remains spreading in Tibetan areas with a living form, so people call it a living epic.
	tibet.cn /en/news/tin/t20061030_170292.htm (407 words)

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		The Ge-sar}{\f18 }{\b\f18 Epic of Tibet}{\f18 \par }\pard \qj\sb120\keep\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\f18 Ge-sar is the central figure of a cycle of epic stories widely known among both Tibetans (David-Neel 1933, Roerich 1942, Hermanns 1965, Stein 1 956, 1959, 1969, 1979) and Mongols (}{\i\f18 e.g.}{\f18, Heissig 1983).
		King Ge-sar has a miraculous birth, a despised and neglected childhood, and then becomes ruler and wins his (first) wife \rquote Brug-mo through a series of marvellous feats.
		The growth of the epic in Eastern Tibet has to be considered, as Stein and Geza Uray have argued, in connection with the growth of the state of gLing-tshang (Stein 1959; Uray 1985).
	users.hunterlink.net.au /~mbbgbs/Geoffrey/gesar.rtf (7579 words)

	Epic poetry - Gurupedia
		Ramayana, and the Shahnama are often cited as examples of the epic genre.
		The first recorded epic is the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.
		The longest epic (and, in general, work of literature) of all time is the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar, which has been collected as a work composed of roughly 120 volumes, with more than 1 million verses, totalling over 20 million words, making it 25 times the size of the ancient Greek epic, the Illiad.
	www.gurupedia.com /e/ep/epic.htm (677 words)

	The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom) - Mahabharata
		(The first is the tibetan Epic of King Gesar, the second is the Manas, a traditional epic poem of the Kyrgyz people.) Besides being hailed as one of the greatest literary accomplishments of humanity, it is also of immense religious and philosophical importance in India.
		The epic is composed by Vyasa, who is one of the major dynastic characters within the epic.
		The most acclaimed and well known presentation of the epic to Western audiences is Peter Brook’s nine hour play premiered in Avignon in 1985 and its five hour movie version (1989), which was shown on other TV networks, including PBS (through the "Great Performances" show) and Danmarks Radio (credited in the movie's credits).
	book-of-thoth.com /thebook/index.php/Mahabharata (2847 words)

	Pushp & Warikoo: Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh - Linguistic Predicament
		In 727 AD when King Khri Lde-gTsug-Brtan conquered Baltistan and annexed it to his State, the Tibetan script was formally introduced as official script through their offices, religious books and rockinscriptions.
		He was the grandson of king Ahmad Shah Maqpon, son of Prince Lutf Ali Khan (Aashiq) and nephew of "Muhid".
		King Gesar Epic is pronounced by Baltis as Kesar.
	koshur.org /Linguistic/7.html (3678 words)

	Regions Central Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I visited various regions to interview nearly 40 singers in the 1980s, and have drawn a picture of the situation of Gesar singers, including the biography of 26 singers, among whom two are Mongolian and one Monhur (Yang 1995).
		They were immersed in the ambience of the story King Gesar before becoming a new generation of singers.
		The singers are the bearers of the Gesar epic, because they have kept so many volumes of the epic by their memories.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/18/regions/c3.html (1357 words)

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		However, the epic means much more than this, for the very word connotes a special status—a profound national or even universal relevance as well as greatness, not merely in the scope and breadth of the narrative but in its poetic merit.
		Virgil’s epic is an amalgamation of the two Homeric texts, merging the themes of war and homecoming into the story of the foundation of the Roman Empire by the exiled Trojan prince Aeneas.
		The epic’s concern with self is most obvious in The Prelude by William Wordsworth, in which the poet is imagined as an epic hero of sorts, his quest being—according to the subtitle given to it by Wordsworth’s wife—the “growth of a poet’s mind”.
	www.orgsites.com /ga/millsprings/EpicsWorld.doc (4119 words)

	Amazon.com: The Warrior Song of King Gesar: Books: Douglas J. Penick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gesar is a warrior and superman, and through meditation and divine interaction, he goes out and - excuse the expression - Kicks Some Demon A**.
		The demon kingdoms surround Gesar's country of Ling, and Gesar must be victorious over them, so the populous will turn towards the tenets of Buddhism and his country have security.
		Gesar is an ancient tale from the Himalayan region, and its hero based on a real king.
	www.amazon.com /Warrior-Song-King-Gesar/dp/0861711130 (945 words)

	July/August 2002 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		Robin Kornman, one of the Kluge Center's International Studies Fellows, discussed this question in a May 23 presentation titled "Nomadic Self-Knowledge in Inner Asia: the Tibetan Gesar of Ling Epic." King Gesar is a popular hero throughout Asia whose notoriety, Kornman believes, will eventually spread to the West.
		He noted that the epic is used today as a role model for the younger generation throughout Asia—that of a devilish youth who goes on to become a wise Buddha.
		As part of his lecture, Kornman played sound recordings of traditional and modern music depicting the life of King Gesar; he also showed slides of a modern brocade portraying King Gesar as a Silk Route magician, a native Tibetan hero and an enlightened Buddha with rainbows emanating from him.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/02078/kluge_tibetan.html (459 words)

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		Gesar of Ling is the Tibetan national epic, as well as the cultural matrix for the Shambhala teachings of my teacher Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.
		The Gesar epic is a particularly difficult text to translate, because it is written in an ancient dialect of Tibetan which most Tibetans, even very learned ones, can not fully understand.
		He was very interested in the Gesar Epic and gave many teachings on it, some of which I am going to transmit here at this site.
	www.robinkornman.com (1169 words)

	Epic poetry - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Although the cycle may repeat upon itself and vary slightly in order from epic to epic, the general points of the cycle include:
		You can find it there under the keyword Epic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epicandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Epic (974 words)

	Epic
		Of course, this label is a misnomer as they are not epics by definition.
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	www.paleorama.com /Marvel-E/Epic.php (1369 words)

	Epic poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the West, the Iliad, the Bible, Odyssey and Nibelungenlied; and in the East, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Shahnama and Epic of King Gesar are often cited as examples of the epic genre.
		Other obvious examples are Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Tulsidas' Sri Ramacharit Manas, which follows the style and subject matter of Valmiki's Ramayana, and the Persian epic Shahnama by Ferdowsi.
		Lost Greek epics ascribed to the Cyclic poets:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epic_poetry (967 words)

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