The Story of Düd and Ling now for the first time translated into English from the original Tibetan is available from Shambhala Publications or Amazon. https://www.shambhala.com/taming-demons.html
Shambhala Online and Karmé Choling are co-hosting a class that Jane Hawes and I are teaching. It will run for five weeks beginning on July 3. There will be four pre-recorded talks and five live discussions. It is part of a three month Gesar Festival that Karmé Choling is hosting this summer. A link to the class is here
My good friend, Melissa Lewis, redesigned the cover of the Covid book and it is now available here This is what it looks like Thanks Melissa!
The next book of the epic is to be published by Shambhala Publications on August 3, 2021. It is entitled The Taming of the Demons and tells the exciting tale of the battle between Düd and Ling. Translated by Jane Hawes, Lama Chönam and David Shapiro. More information to follow. “Not just for scholars and established aficionados of the Gesar epic, this translation is exciting and eminently accessible. I was loath to stop reading, and you will be too.” —Natasha…..
The book that first was seen on this blog is now available on Amazon. It is entitled Gesar and Covid-19: An Ancient Warrior Returns to Battle the Pandemic. A great read and available here. Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter Nine Ne’uchung took her own bedroom and, while Michung may have wanted for something else, as his yearning gaze suggested, he was given the small fold-out couch in her study, which he shared in monklike repose with Gyatsha. They had never been great friends although, bound by oaths and battles, they were close at times. Tonight, they chatted a bit about their lives over the past few hundred years and, as the silences lengthened, they both grew bored…..
Chapter Seven Well, it turned out that Drukmo was not in Buffalo at all. The bard had just wanted to write ‘Buffalo’ because he liked the word—it reminded him of the yaks, dri, and drong that he had loved so much when he was a boy long ago upon the wilderness of the northeastern Tibetan province of Amdo. There, the verdant valleys and broad mountain reaches contrasted with each other and the livestock roamed and was herded across the…..
Chapter Five Bard here. Those of you familiar with the Gesar epic must be wondering a number of things. At the top of your list might be, “Where is Trothung and what happened to him?” Well, that is a good question and to find out we will take a brief historical tangent. We last saw Trothung many years ago. 860 to be exact, around the end of Gesar’s first incarnation and his various battles with the enemies of Ling. For…..
A brief note to the reader. In this chapter is the first of many songs and within them you will find italicized proverbs. The majority are Tibetan in origin though a few well known Western proverbs are included. Do please enjoy and your comments are always very welcome. D and J. Chapter Three Many people believe Chamara to be a mythic place, and it has been described as such in the ancient Tibetan Buddhist texts. It is…..
Gesar and COVID-19: An Ancient Hero Returns to Battle the Pandemic Chapter One It was a cool, early spring day in Tushita Heaven and Gesar was contemplating the oneness of the universe and the cosmic truth and compelling nature of compassion, blissfully, as was his wont, unaware of the situation below. Troubles had been brewing and yes, brewing is pretty much the right word, for some months. A virus, like the SARS and MERS coronaviruses before, had begun in…..