Miti e leggende del Tibet
In Tibet, paese che «abbonda di leggende come la sorgente abbonda di acqua», basta chiedere il nome di un lago o di una vetta per sentirsi raccontare una leggenda o, magari, un’antica storia di guerrieri, monaci o demoni dei monti.
Nessuno, però, prima di Andreas Gruschke, aveva raccolto in un unico volume le leggende, le saghe e i miti del Tibet contenuti negli annali o trasmessi di generazione in generazione. Dalle antiche narrazioni sulla creazione fino alle leggende sulla ricerca del Dalai Lama, questo libro non presenta soltanto un’avvincente raccolta di letteratura «fiabesca», ma una straordinaria antologia della storia culturale e religiosa del Tibet, scritta dal punto di vista mistico-religioso dei suoi abitanti
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Born in 1960, Andreas Gruschke lives and works in the southwest German city of Freiburg. 1982 to 1990 studies in geography, ethnology (cultural anthropology) and sinology at universities in Aachen, Freiburg and Beijing (1984/85). Work as a lecturer at Shanxi Agricultural University in Taigu, Shanxi, PRC (in 1985/86), and at Kangweon National University in Chuncheon, South Korea (1992/93). Beginning in 1987 repeatedly guiding study tours through Eastern and Central Asia, with the emphasis put on Tibet and the Silk Road. During numerous private stays the author continued research on Tibetan culture, with a particular view to the ethnic development and the relationship between the different peoples in contact. Altogether, he has been more than 30 times to the various parts of the Tibetan realm, thus having travelled some 80,000 km all over the highland, from Ladakh and Western Tibet, several Tibetan areas in the Himalayas, southern and central Tibet, the vast steppes of the Changthang in the plateau's heart up to almost every area in Amdo and Kham in the East. His publications therefore mostly deal with Tibetan culture, including picture albums on Tibet, books on the oral tradition of the Tibetans and articles on ethnography, history and society. |
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