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The nine-eyed agate : poems and stories /
The Nine-Eyed Agate is an overview of poetry and prose written between 1984 and 2002 by one of Tibet's most well known contemporary authors and intellectuals, Jangbu. Illustrated by his original sketches and covering a broad spectrum, the author evokes nomadic life, love and betrayal, social up...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Tibetan |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in modern Tibetan culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ""Destruction and Creation"": Preface to Jangbu's Collected Writings: Essays; The Nine-Eyed Agate; Part One: Selections from the Nine-Eyed Agate; Searching; The Poet; Lotus; Three Verses on the Eight-Petalled Lotus; How I See Things Today; Our Tomorrows; The Waterwheel; Question; The Other Face; Above & Below; Harm; Conscience Clearing; One Afternoon Oppressed by Pain; Can this Great Boat Carry us to the other Side?; The Uninvited Guest; Two Things Hard to Find; You All; But; The Whittling.
- Formless BladeThe Act; Lhasa; The Present; Agate-1; Agate-2; Three Animal Stories; The Lamb; The Pheasant and the Chicken; He Who Died in a Trap; Motes; My Tibet; An Idea of a Wife; Dream; All There Is; The High Place; Leftovers; One Day; The Woman Prisoner; The Owl; Joke; The Three: Sun, Moon, and Stars; Playing My Own Tune; Missive Offered to the City Municipality on Behalf of the People; Many Hands; Wine; Mother, I Am Afraid; Norbu, Beloved Jewel; One Flower; Agate-3; Agate-4; Agate-5; Agate-6; Agate-8; Agate-9; The Secret; Goddess; An Unbearable Spring; Each Person; Semarkar; My Dream.
- Peeling the SkinLiving Together; Reflections-Tongue in Cheek-On Poetry; Translator's Notes; Part Two: Other Selected Poems; Jottings on the Prairie; A Day at the Races; Your Happiness is Mine too; The Leaves of a Maple Tree; Little Red Fox; The Thigh-Bone Trumpet Player; The City; When You Returned; Play on Body Grammar; Wife; Exhaustion; Practicing Sky Burial; Jangbu the (Silent) Smithy; Earring of the Night; One Kind of Worry; The Current; Meditation Cave; Sacrifice; The West; Appearance-Emptiness; 10 x Me: Many True & Mocking Words about I Myself; Another Me; A Bunch of Images; White Foal.
- The River and the BridgePrince. Eagle.; Going Home; Listening to the Snow; ""Ma la y a""-Praise to the Mother (An Acrostic Poem); Looking at Myself; Pigeon; The Path · Love; An Old Ruined Fort; The Reason Why the Wild Yak Died; The Third Eye; Thigh-Bone Trumpet; The World and Human Beings; You Can Set Me Alight; Melody: A Dirge to Döndrup Gyel (1952-1985); Translator's Notes; Part Three: Selected Stories; Darkness; -Dream; -For Real; Soul Born of a Scapula; The Tale of the Golden Fish; Lhasa Moon, Lhasa Dawa; The Lamp; A Prose Poem: The Bride of Speech; Fantasy; The Thing; Odd Boots.
- The Qinghai Tibetan News and ITranslator's Notes; Appendix 1: Publication Credits; Appendix 2: Tibetan Spellings; About the Author; About the Translator.