Book Information

Thangka Paintings: An Illustrated Manual of Tibetan Epic Gesar

Author: Aiming Zhou

Publisher: China Pictorial Publishing House

Publication time: 2003-12

ISBN:7800246965

Price: RMB 198.00

Language type: English

Introduction

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 in light popular forms. Not only foreign masterpieces such as the Bible and Buddhist Scriptures but also China's four famous classical novels including Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West, and A Dream of Red Mansions have all been popularized in light ways. 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 believed that the epic Gesar should also be popularized in a direct manner. Furthermore, except for Tibetan prints there was no 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.

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