TY - BOOK AU - Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho, AU - Avertin,Gyurme AU - Trungpa,Chögyam AU - Orgyen Tobgyal, TI - Gesar: Tantric practices of the Tibetan warrior king SN - 9781611809152 AV - PL3748.G4 M57 2023 U1 - 294.3/444 23/eng/20221202 PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder, Colorado PB - Snow Lion KW - Gesar KW - (Legendary character) KW - Prayers and devotions KW - Tantric Buddhism KW - Buddhism KW - China KW - Tibet Autonomous Region N1 - Foreword / by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse -- Translator's Introduction -- Part I. Gesar Explained -- Part II. Gesar Practices and Crafts -- Part III. Extra Prayers from the Rest of the Collected Works -- Glossary of Terms -- Glossary of Proper Names -- Notes N2 - "Gesar of Ling is widely known as the hero of Tibet's national oral epic, considered the longest epic in the world. But he is also the focus of Buddhist practices in which his enlightened form known as King Gesar the Jewel becomes one of the numerous spiritual methods offered by Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism to progress towards buddhahood. This work contains the complete selection of practice texts compiled by the early modern Tibetan polymath Ju Mipham and included in his Collected Works"-- ER -