King Gesar Effectively Saved

King Gesar is an encyclopedia with contents covering social develop-ment, history, wars, religious belief, folklore, linguistics and exchanges between different tribes.In Tibet, folk balladeers declare they can sing up to 1,000 volumes of the epic, passed down through history orally and enriched in contents by the public themselves. The Central Government sets great store by the gathering, compiling and publishing of the epic, considered to be longer     

Tangka Painting of Gesar

Rope and other patterns on pottery unearthed from the Karub cultural sites, dating back some 5,000 years, are considered to be the earliest examples of painting art known so far. Rock paintings believed to have come later constitute the embryo of Tibetan painting art.Tangka painting is closely related to frescoes in terms of painting art. Tangka is created to reproduce what is painted in the fresco. Cultures prevalent in China's hinterland, India and Nepal exerted deep influence on Tibetan painting art.Both Princess Wencheng and Princess Jincheng brought the Han Chinese culture into Tibet, which proved to be a boon for the development of Tibetan painting art. With construction of the Potala Palace, Jokhang, Qamzhub and other monasteries, Tibetan painting art developed apace. Frescoes in Jokhang Monastery, Qamzhub Monastery and Potala Palace, still visible today, feature a simple nature, with rich colors and concise lines, while figures were painted in an     

Millennium Celebrations of King Gesar

King Gesar has been circulating among Tibetans for some 1,000 years or more.The longest epic in the world, passed down through the ages in the oral form, has even drawn the concern of the international community. UNESCO has approved activities in honor of the millennium of the epic. Public opinion hails this as a major event important for the protection of traditional Tibetan culture and the promotion of various ethnic groups in the world.The epic is a concentration of ancient tales, legends, sayings, and various kinds of folk arts. Thus far, 150 volumes have been located; they contain some 1.5 milion lines.     

Sangzhub Edition of King Gesar

Tibetan folk artists created and passed down through succeeding generations the story of King Gesar. All of them had an extraordinarily good memory. Of the known editions of the epic, only 10 percent are in written form with the remainder have been sung and passed down through history orally.A general survey of the folk editions of the epic in the 1980s showed that some 40 folk balladeers could sing more than 10 editions of King Gesar. Efforts have since been made to save, compile and publish these. Thus far, we have recorded 122 volumes of the epic in some     

King Gesar:PUBLISHING PLAN

When the national conference on philosophy and social sciences was held inGuilin, Guangxi, in 1983, it wasdecided that efforts be made to gather and compile King Gesar as anational project during the SixthFive-Year Plan.With efforts made by dozens ofNPC and CPPCC delegates, the Statedepartment concerned earmarkesome 6 million Yuan for the ChineseAcademy of Social Sciences to organize the work.Compiling King Gesar was officially approved, and the first fourvolumes were published: The …     

Gesar Stone Carvings in Moska

During the May Day of 2002, Li Xingxing, an associate research fellow of the Nationality Research Institute of Sichuan Province, a cameraman of the production team of a certain TV sta-tion of Sichuan, a number of teachers and students of Southwest Jiaotong University Architecture College and I, went to Dain-ba County for an inspection related to the application for world cultural relic status     

Millennia Anniversary of King Gesar

In November 2001, UNESCO approved China's proposal for celebrating the millennium anniversary of King Gesar in 2002-2003. The Chinese deem this as a confirmation of their efforts to rescue, compile, translate and publish the longest epic in the world. Efforts have since been made to prepare for the event. The National King Gesar Office joined hands with local branch offices to sponsor celebration activities from last June.——Garze in Sichuan held a meeting in the hometown of Gesar in June;     

Cradle of the Gesar Culture

EDITOR'S NOTE: Shiqu is located in the area inhabited by people of the Tibetan ethnic group. It is close to the Gesar Cultural Area in Yushu and Golog of Qinghai, Qamdo of Tibet, Dege of Garze of Sichuan Province. Our visit to that part of the world not long ago shows that Dege is regarded as the hometown of Gesar, and Shiqu is the cradle of Gesar Culture.     

Gesar:MEANING and CONTENT

Scholars have long shown keen interest in thesource and content of Gesar, in the epic KingGesar. But this has led to many conflicting views.In fact, the hero in the epic is not always named asGesar. Apart from this difference, there are variations in thecontent of the name.GESAR IN THE HEAVENToinzhub Garbo was the youngest son of the king of theWhite Brahma. In Tibetan, "Toinzhub" means "grand cause",and "Garbo" means "white," with "Toinzhub Garbo" meaning "the person who will be s…     

Tangka Gesar:A Rare Treasure

King Gesar is an epic orally passed down through history. With a view to attracting more audience, some balladeersbegan making drawings to illustrate the contents and these became the earliest form of tangka painting about Gesar.People, however, also cherished the Gesar Tangka for home worship purposes. Most of these paintings depict Gesar mounted on a horse in battle. Such paintings can be further divided into two types: One type finds expression in the 10 tangka paintings collected by the Jig-mei Museum in Paris; and the second type includes 11 tangka paintings by the     

Ecological Content of Epic King Gesar

King Gesar, an epic created orally by the Tibetans long ago, covers ethnic groups,language, religion, civil affairs, literature and arts,history, politics, military, ethic, ecology and psychology, etc. Thus it is viewed as Tibetan encyclopedia. A study of the epic shows that in view of the fo refathers of the Tibetans, man and nature both have souls and are equal life forms with religious dignity. It is mainly represented in following aspects, the idea of “respecting life and nature” as its core.     

King Gesar:The World''''s Longest Epic

King Gesar, a great epic created by the Tibetan race in ancient time, has been orally transmitted down the generations and widely known throughout Tibetan-inhabited areas. It tells of the exploits of the magical hero-king Gesar, and his prowess in battle as he strives to defend his people. The epic embodies the highest level of the ancient Tibetan culture, hence commanding high academic and aesthetic value. Internationally, it is known as "Homer epic in the east."King Gesar was born into th…     

Valuable Cultural Relics of Gesar Times Reappeared in Garze

In August,2011,Professor Wen Yucheng,Chinese famous archaeologist,former Director of the Institute of Luoyang Longrnen Grattoes,researcher at the Office for Cultural Relics Appraisement in China Cultural Relics Information Consulting Center,has identified some valuable cultural relics of the Gesar times,which are stored in the Kathok Monastery, Palyul County,Garze Prefecture,Sichuan Province. It is the third time for Professor Wen came to Garze and evaluated cultural relics of Buddhism and of the Gesar times.Before that,he had gone to Derge,Palyul, Denkhok,Garze and Chaggo in Garze to make field work on appraisement of the cultural relics of the Gesar times. Prof.Wen said,"In the hearts of Tibetans,King Gesar     

Bargya Rinpoche and the Stories of Gesar in Axu Grassland

The Legendary Homeland of Gesar The reincarnation Bargya is one of the abbots of the Chacha Monastery in Axu Town,Dege County in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province. As a high profile identity with profound Buddhist knowledge, Bargya Rinpoche is also the local administrator in charge of the famous Gesar Temple.Being very     

Bargya Rinpoche and the Stories of Gesar in Axu Grassland

The Legendary Homeland of Gesar The reincarnation Bargya is one of the abbots of the Chacha Monastery in Axu Town,Dege County in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province. As a high profile identity with profound Buddhist knowledge, Bargya Rinpoche is also the local administrator in charge of the famous Gesar Temple.Being very     

Researching and Editing the Selective Edition of the Tibetan Epic Gesar

Gesar is a great heroic epiccreated collectively byTibetans.For thousands ofyears,it has been circulatingfar and wide within Tibetanareas and has been loved byTibetans.Gesar represents anhistorical pinnacle of ancient Ti-betan culture.As not only a crys-tallization of Tibetan's intelligence,but also a cultural treasure house,Gesar is of high academic and aestheticvalue.     

Tne Application and Cultural Understanding or tne Epic Gesar Images in Rites

Images are important materialized forms of the epic Gesar. G.N.Roerich from the former Soviet Union, a famous expert in Tibetan studies, in his article of The Epic Gesar of gLing, divided the images of the epic Gesar into two types according to their content: "1) images to present King Gesar's mysterious life based on available written versions of the epic, and 2) images to portray Gesar as Guan Ti, who was     

保护环境从我做起

<正>曾几何时,人类不无得意地发出"人是万物的尺度""人定胜天"的口号,摆起一副高姿态,把人类凌驾于自然之上,公然做起了自然的主人,向自然任意地开发索取所需要的一切……正是在这种口号的诱导下,人类创造出了奇迹般的辉煌成就,但同时也遭到了来自自然界的报复。据联合国环境署提供的材料,目前共有十大环境因素     

百名志愿者千里护鸟飞

正~~