The Theatre Of Tibet

Author : Antonio Attisani
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869764249
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The theatre of Tibet written by Antonio Attisani and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2024-04-05T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he theatrical culture of Tibet is probably the last to remain virtually unknown to the outside world, and to the West in particular. As well as describing the current situation of studies on Tibetan theatre, the current volume also provides an essay on imagination and how it is concretely manifested by the Tibetan people and their actors. Recent decades have seen radical change for Tibetan theatre, ache lhamo, now performed by a diaspora for whom a declining artistic and technical change derives from an uncertain politics concerning secular and popular culture, as well as the ongoing cultural genocide caused by China’s subjection of Tibet.

Author : Abhishek Majumdar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786827115
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pah-La written by Abhishek Majumdar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I just lit up. I did not burn” In a remote Tibetan village, Deshar, a young runaway has disowned her father Tsering and become a Buddhist nun. In Lhasa, Chinese Commander Deng is working for the future of the country, unable to meet the needs of his wife and daughter. When Deshar carries out an act of defiance it reverberates across the whole country and a new freedom struggle is born with life changing consequences for Deshar, Deng and their families. “Tell that girl, she has changed Tibet forever.” Pah-la, based on real stories during the 2008 Lhasa riots, is an examination of the future of non-violence.

Author : Jean Claude Van Itallie
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822211488
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Or, How Not to Do it Again written by Jean Claude Van Itallie and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Based on the classic Buddhist text, the play deals with the transmigration of the soul and the choices to be made as the spirit hovers in suspended animation. Brilliantly theatrical in concept and execution, the piece blends music, mime,

Author : H. V. Sharma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatres of the Buddhists written by H. V. Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on the Buddhist theater in India, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Author : Joanna Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lhamo, Opera from the Roof of the World written by Joanna Ross and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Lhamo, classical secular theater of Tibet.

Author : Pema Tseden
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438474261
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enticement written by Pema Tseden and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories that reflect the complexities of contemporary Tibetan life, written by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden. Enticement marks the English-language debut of prominent Tibetan writer and filmmaker Pema Tseden. This collection gathers together his most relevant and influential short stories, including “Tharlo,” which he adapted into an award-winning and internationally acclaimed film in 2015. Written originally in the Chinese and Tibetan languages, these stories make use of a variety of literary styles and sources, ranging from traditional Tibetan oral tales to magical realism, surrealism, and the theater of the absurd. They humanize the Tibetan experience by stepping away from patronizing, mystic, or idealized visions of Tibet to speak with empathy and humor about the real challenges faced by Tibetans in the age of globalization. Advance Praise for Enticement “Pema Tseden is known internationally as an award-winning filmmaker, the elegant and contemplative pioneering auteur of new Tibetan cinema. Western audiences may not, however, be aware that he began his career as a critically acclaimed writer of short stories. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani and Michael Monhart have, for the first time, shared with the English reader a comprehensive anthology of both his Chinese and Tibetan stories. The stories in this collection reflect Pema Tseden’s characteristically observant, unhurried, and humanistic take on the violent social changes faced by Tibetans living at the edge of China’s economic transformation. Schiaffini-Vedani and Monhart’s translations are rich and faithful to the original texts. They must be commended for providing us with a valuable new source on cultural life in contemporary Tibet.” — Tsering Shakya, author of The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 “Pema Tseden is the singularly most influential Tibetan filmmaker on the international scene. With this skillfully translated collection of short stories, Enticement, readers can now also appreciate his written works, including the renowned ‘Tharlo.’ In literary long shots, the author transforms grasslands, snowy expanses, and county seats into mindscapes with a curious and chilly brilliance until they are rendered translucent. Elsewhere, he racks focus with wry humor from quirky details to complex social realities, finding possibility in fantasy, chance meetings, and even mistranslation. Interspersed with the winsome and arboreal artwork of Wu Yao and with the orientation of an insightful introduction and preface, these contemporary tales beckon readers with all the promise of the title-story towards the liminal, where cultural and temporal displacement may point to new meanings.” — Lauran R. Hartley, Columbia University “Pema Tseden, a distinguished writer and filmmaker, is an important leader among Tibetan intellectuals. He sees Tibet as more than a land of startling natural beauty, of profound religious heritage, and of galling colonization by the Communist Party of China—correct though those views are. For him, Tibetan culture lives not only in Tibet proper, but across Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu as well, and Tibetan people are not mystical Others but ordinary human beings (flawed, as we all are) who struggle to adapt their inherited lives to the modern world (as people everywhere, now or recently, have done). By looking beyond clichéd concepts to examine actual lives, Pema Tseden’s work enriches Tibetan culture and shows a new face for it.” — Perry Link, author of An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics “For the first time in the Anglophone world, we have an extraordinary translation of short stories by the celebrated Tibetan filmmaker and writer Pema Tseden, originally written in Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese. While he wrote his stories in Tibetan for his Tibetan readers, in Mandarin Chinese for Chinese readers, the translators have brought both sets of stories together in one volume to allow readers to compare and contrast how he writes for different audiences. These stories, told in beguilingly simple and direct prose, are powerful vignettes of Tibetan life, as powerful as his deeply evocative films, filled not only with despair and loss but also beauty and longing. These elegant stories are almost more powerful in what they do not say than in what they do say. I recommend Enticement to everyone.” — Shu-mei Shih, author of Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific “The blinding sun, wind storms, wolves, and death are at work in these vital and unforgettable stories. Equally, the social forces of surveillance, bureaucracy, information, misinformation, and romance propel the narratives, which encompass the ordinary and the truly strange. The collection is invaluable for offering an all too rare ‘Tibetan view of Tibet,’ revealing unexpected and disorienting perspectives on Buddhism and on Tibetans’ engagements with the Chinese state. The characters we get to know are police officers, herders, artists, children, lamas, and lovers. They are all painfully and vividly alive, their every move and impulse represented with startlingly detailed observation. Readers will be richer in knowledge and imagination from spending time with these stories, so expertly translated that we feel we hear the author’s compassionate and yet relentlessly perceptive voice. One is left with an impression that is crystal clear and yet uncanny. It is difficult to say whether the strongest draw of the stories is humor or sorrow.” — Dominique Townsend, Bard College

Author : Jamyang Norbu
Publisher : Bluejay Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Tibet written by Jamyang Norbu and published by Bluejay Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588225
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre written by James R. Brandon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.

Author : Shelly Bhoil
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498552390
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage written by Shelly Bhoil and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focusing on developments taking place in Tibet and the diaspora, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues at the heart of Tibetan modernity. From the political dynamics of the exiled community in India to the production of contemporary Tibetan literature in the PRC, the collection delves into various aspects of current significance for the Tibetan community worldwide such as the construction of Bon identity in exile, the strategic use of the discourse of development or the issue of cultural and linguistic purity in an increasingly hybrid and globalized world. Moving away from the preservationist paradigm that regards Tibetan culture as an endangered and precious object, the essays in this book portray Tibetan identities in motion, as lived subjectivities that travel, change and creatively reimagine themselves on various global stages. Even if recent Tibetan history is marked by imposed transitions and a sense of dispossession, this collection highlights the ways Tibetans have not only managed traumatic historical events but also become agents of change and reinventors of their own traditions.

Author : Rolf Alfred Stein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804709019
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibetan Civilization written by Rolf Alfred Stein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overall view of the Tibetan civilization, both ancient and modern Tibet. This book relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia.