The Epic of Gesar of Ling rosebud and become imbued with a

and become imbued with a confident sense of well-being as an indication of having banished the evil hordes of Mara beyond the confines of the world

As a Tibetan lama and spiritual leader

Garuda grasps the tails of the naga-serpents with his sharp talons

Translated by Gyurme Dorje

In addition to having received input and direction from Chagdud Rinpoche

The Epic of Gesar of Ling rosebud and become imbued with aTranslated by Robin Kornman, Lama Chonam, and Sangye Khandro The epic of Gesar has been the national treasure of Tibet for almost a thousand years. An open canon of tales about a superhuman warrior king, the epic is still a living oral tradition, included on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book is a translation of the beginning portion of this enormous corpus, covering all the events from Gesar's