Like oral epics from countries around the world, the heroic epic of King Gesar found among Tibetans is mainly popularized in two ways: through oral song and through handwritten copies and woodcuts. However, the most common and the most important factor is reliance upon each singer to hand the tradition down from one generation to the next.Issue title "Chinese Oral Traditions.
The idea of launching studies on the epics to be found along the Silk Roads was born in France and F...
Different minority groups have different versions of the Gesar epic. Their respective forms differ f...
The epic King Geser has been in wide circulation in Chinese Inner Mongolian and Tibetan areas thanks...
The riddle of memorized epics is a subject of concern for the scholarly community. With an eye to th...
In the field of Tibetan oral epic studies there is concern over that fact that the tradition of King...
In the Xinjiang region of China performances of Manas were once very popular. When a comprehensive s...
This paper provides a review of the scholarly discourse on problems of the Tibetan epic Gesar's time...
The epic King Geser has been in wide circulation in Chinese Inner Mongolian and Tibetan areas thanks...
Since the 1950s large-scale government-sponsored folk literature collection projects have been carri...
The Mongols have a long tradition of oral literature. About the first half of the nineteenth century...
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It is a well-known fact that the performer of narrative poetry usually tries to reproduce a text he ...
The study of Tibetan mountain gods presents two principal problems. First, previous research on Tibe...
In the field of Tibetan oral epic studies there is concern over that fact that the tradition of King...
Shamanistic oral traditions in the form of primitive religion have come down to the present from anc...
The idea of launching studies on the epics to be found along the Silk Roads was born in France and F...
Different minority groups have different versions of the Gesar epic. Their respective forms differ f...
The epic King Geser has been in wide circulation in Chinese Inner Mongolian and Tibetan areas thanks...
The riddle of memorized epics is a subject of concern for the scholarly community. With an eye to th...
In the field of Tibetan oral epic studies there is concern over that fact that the tradition of King...
In the Xinjiang region of China performances of Manas were once very popular. When a comprehensive s...
This paper provides a review of the scholarly discourse on problems of the Tibetan epic Gesar's time...
The epic King Geser has been in wide circulation in Chinese Inner Mongolian and Tibetan areas thanks...
Since the 1950s large-scale government-sponsored folk literature collection projects have been carri...
The Mongols have a long tradition of oral literature. About the first half of the nineteenth century...
The Palawan people live in the southern half of the island of the same name between the Sulu Sea and...
It is a well-known fact that the performer of narrative poetry usually tries to reproduce a text he ...
The study of Tibetan mountain gods presents two principal problems. First, previous research on Tibe...
In the field of Tibetan oral epic studies there is concern over that fact that the tradition of King...
Shamanistic oral traditions in the form of primitive religion have come down to the present from anc...
The idea of launching studies on the epics to be found along the Silk Roads was born in France and F...
Different minority groups have different versions of the Gesar epic. Their respective forms differ f...
The epic King Geser has been in wide circulation in Chinese Inner Mongolian and Tibetan areas thanks...