This review appeared in the online site Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. It has a short article about the book that I wrote as well . The link is here
For those of you looking for a bit more information of a more scholarly nature here are some internet resources you could check out: Wikipedia– A very good place to start Lotsawa House– A number of Gesar Practices and other information Himalayan Art- Both images and information about Gesar and the Epic. A Short Video (4minutes) about the Epic by Sangye Khandro, an American born translator and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism and The Epic of Gesar by…..
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Never been here, never done it. So it is that my first blog begins. On the other hand I have been writing this or that for as long as I can remember. I would like these blog pages to be both fun as well as informative about the Gesar Epic and a bit less about myself. First a bit about how this version of the epic came to be written which goes into a bit more detail about the writing…..
Welcome. My name is David Shapiro, author of Gesar of Ling. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Gesar of Ling, expanding on some of the topics in it and blogging on some of the ideas related to my book. This is…..