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The Nine-Eyed Agate


The Nine-Eyed Agate

Poems and Stories
Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture

von: Heather Jangbu

97,99 €

Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 04.08.2010
ISBN/EAN: 9781461662686
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 228

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<span><span><span>The Nine-Eyed Agate</span><span> seeks to break stereotyped images of Tibet and Tibetans inside the PRC today, and in the diaspora, by presenting an outstanding personality who survived childhood during the Cultural Revolution, then going on to lead a rich and somewhat controversial career within the PRC. As a free-wheeling, restless traveller in samsara (the cycle of existence), Jangbu has explored every corner of the Tibetan plateau with a view to understanding the culture and history of his people, their plight, and the key issues that Tibet faces today. Widely read in world literature through Chinese translation he has traveled around the world, attending international poetry meetings and film festivals, taking part in university conferences and developing his passion for film. This rich diversity is reflected in his poems and prose, the subject matter ranging through eternal themes such as love and betrayal, fantasy and 'magical realism', mystical flight and biting social satire. His poetry is experimental, presenting a panorama of styles with examples in modern free-verse, classical Indo-Tibetan metrical poetics (though this is rare), and more characteristically, in the dense "obscure" poetry of the post-Cultural Revolution years in China (1980s onwards), for which Jangbu is particularly well known. His work is often semi-autobiographical, written in a "docu-fictional" mode, announcing Jangbu's growing fascination for the screen.</span></span></span>
<i>The Nine-Eyed Agate</i> 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 upheaval, political satire and mystical revelation. Experimenting with language and genre, his writing ranges from the "obscure" post-Cultural Revolution style to recent pithy read-between-the-lines statements.
1 Preface
<br>2 Acknowledgements
<br>3 Introduction
<br>4 "Destruction and Creation"
<br>5 The Nine-Eyed Agate
<br>Part 6 Part One: Selections from
<i>The Nine-Eyed Agate</i>
<br>7 Searching
<br>8 The Poet
<br>9 Lotus
<br>10 Three Verses on the Eight-Petalled Lotus
<br>11 How I See Things Today
<br>12 Our Tomorrows
<br>13 The Waterwheel
<br>14 Question
<br>15 The Other Face
<br>16 Above &amp; Below
<br>17 Harm
<br>18 Conscience Clearing
<br>19 One Afternoon Oppressed by Pain
<br>20 Can this Great Boat Carry Us to the Other Side?
<br>21 The Uninvited Guest
<br>22 Two Things Hard to Find
<br>23 You All
<br>24 But
<br>25 The Whittling
<br>26 Formless Blade
<br>27 The Act
<br>28 Lhasa
<br>29 The Present
<br>30 Agate—1
<br>31 Agate—2
<br>32 Three Animal Stories: The Lamb, The Pheasant and the Chicken, He Who Died in a Trap
<br>33 Motes
<br>34 My Tibet
<br>35 An Idea of a Wife
<br>36 Dream
<br>37 All There Is
<br>38 The High Place
<br>39 Leftovers
<br>40 One Day
<br>41 The Woman Prisoner
<br>42 The Owl
<br>43 Joke
<br>44 The Three: Sun, Moon, and Stars
<br>45 Playing My Own Tune
<br>46 Missive Offered to the City Municipality on Behalf of the People
<br>47 Many Hands
<br>48 Wine
<br>49 Mother, I Am Afraid
<br>50 Norbu, Beloved Jewel
<br>51 One Flower
<br>52 Agate—3
<br>53 Agate—4
<br>54 Agate—5
<br>55 Agate—6
<br>56 Agate—8
<br>57 Agate—9
<br>58 The Secret
<br>59 Goddess
<br>60 An Unbearable Spring
<br>61 Each Person
<br>62 Semarkar
<br>63 My Dream
<br>64 Peeling the Skin
<br>65 Living Together
<br>66 Reflections-Tongue in Cheek-on Poetry
<br>67 Translator's Notes
<br>Part 68 Part Two: Other Selected Poems
<br>69 Jottings on the Prairie
<br>70 A Day at the Races
<br>71 Your Happiness Is Mine Too
<br>72 The Leaves of a Maple Tree
<br>73 Little Red Fox
<br>74 The Thigh-Bone Trumpet Player
<br>75 The City
<br>76 When You Returned
<br>77 Play on Body Grammar
<br>78 Wife
<br>79 Exhaustion
<br>80 Practicing Sky Burial
<br>81 Jangbu the (Silent) Smithy
<br>82 Earring of the Night
<br>83 One Kind of Worry
<br>84 The Current: Meditation Cave, Sacrifice, The West
<br>85 Appearance—Emptiness
<br>86 10 x Me: Many True &amp; Mocking Words about I Myself
<br>87 Another Me
<br>88 A Bunch of Images: White Foal, The River and the Bridge, Prince. Eagle.
<br>89 Going Home
<br>90 Listening to the Snow
<br>91
<i>"Ma la ya"</i>—Praise to the Mother (Acrostic Poem)
<br>92 Looking at Myself
<br>93 Pigeon
<br>94 The Path * Love
<br>95 An Old Ruined Fort
<br>96 The Reason Why the Wild Yak Died
<br>97 The Third Eye
<br>98 Thigh-Bone Trumpet
<br>99 The World and Human Beings
<br>100 You Can Set Me Alight
<br>101 Melody: A Dirge To Döndrup Gyel (1952–1985)
<br>102 Translator's Notes
<br>Part 103 Part Three: Selected Stories
<br>104 Darkness: Dream, For Real
<br>105 Soul Born of a Scapula
<br>106 The Tale of the Golden Fish
<br>107 Lhasa Moon, Lhasa Dawa
<br>108 The Lamp
<br>109 A Prose Poem: The Bride of Speech
<br>110 Fantasy
<br>111 The Thing
<br>112 Odd Boots
<br>113 The
<i>Qinghai Tibetan News</i> and Me
<br>114 Translator's Notes
<br>115 Appendix 1: Publication Credits
<br>116 Appendix 2: Tibetan Spellings 185
<b>Heather Stoddard</b> is a professor and head of Tibetan studies at the National Institute for Oriental Languages &amp; Civilisations in Paris.

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