The Epic of Gesar of Ling ~ Paperback Book

The Epic of Gesar of Ling—Gesar’s Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King is the translation of the first three of over one-hundred volumes of the national epic of Tibet, sung by bards since the 12th century C.E. and compiled as a woodblock under the direction of the great Ju Mipham Jampel Gyepai Dorje in the 19th century. It represents a true treasure of Tibetan culture that, due to the Tibetan diaspora, now incorporates itself within the Western canon of great philosophical and religious works. The inspiration and endeavor to translate these volumes began over two decades ago with the late Dr. Robin Kornman, who was both a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and a scholar of comparative literature. Fortuitously, he met Sangye Khandro and Lama Chonam, and they worked for many years together on the initial translation. Several months of the year, Sangye and Chonam sat at Robin’s dining-room table in his eastside Milwaukee lower flat, working—word-by-word and line-by-line—thr