Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types - From Genre Classification to Transformation

The papers in Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types investigate specific Tibetan genres and texts as well as genre classification, transformation, and reception. The text types examined range from oral trickster narratives to songs, offering-rituals, biographies, and modern literature.

About the author

Jim Rheingans, Ph.D. (2008), is a Research Fellow in Tibetan Studies at the University of Hamburg. He has published about Tibetan literature, history, and Buddhism, including "Communicating the Innate" (2012) and Narrative Pattern and Genre in Hagiographic Life Writing (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Jim Rheingans
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2015
• EAN: 9789004300996
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30099-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics