The Nine-Eyed Agate

Jangbu Jangbu

doi:10.5771/9781461662686

Summary

The Nine-Eyed Agate seeks to break stereotyped images of Tibet and Tibetans inside the PRC today, and in the diaspora, by presenting an outstanding personality who survived childhood during the Cultural Revolution, then going on to lead a rich and somewhat controversial career within the PRC. As a free-wheeling, restless traveller in samsara (the cycle of existence), Jangbu has explored every corner of the Tibetan plateau with a view to understanding the culture and history of his people, their plight, and the key issues that Tibet faces today. Widely read in world literature through Chinese translation he has traveled around the world, attending international poetry meetings and film festivals, taking part in university conferences and developing his passion for film. This rich diversity is reflected in his poems and prose, the subject matter ranging through eternal themes such as love and betrayal, fantasy and 'magical realism', mystical flight and biting social satire. His poetry is experimental, presenting a panorama of styles with examples in modern free-verse, classical Indo-Tibetan metrical poetics (though this is rare), and more characteristically, in the dense "obscure" poetry of the post-Cultural Revolution years in China (1980s onwards), for which Jangbu is particularly well known. His work is often semi-autobiographical, written in a "docu-fictional" mode, announcing Jangbu's growing fascination for the screen.

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Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-2875-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6268-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 189
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Figures No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. Introduction No access
6. "Destruction and Creation": Preface to Jangbu's Collected Writings: Essays No access
7. The Nine-Eyed Agate No access
1. Searching No access
2. The Poet No access
3. Lotus No access
4. Three Verses on the Eight-Petalled Lotus No access
5. How I See Things Today No access
6. Our Tomorrows No access
7. The Waterwheel No access
8. Question No access
9. The Other Face No access
10. Above & Below No access
11. Harm No access
12. Conscience Clearing No access
13. One Afternoon Oppressed by Pain No access
14. Can this Great Boat Carry us to the other Side? No access
15. The Uninvited Guest No access
16. Two Things Hard to Find No access
17. You All No access
18. But No access
19. The Whittling No access
20. Formless Blade No access
21. The Act No access
22. Lhasa No access
23. The Present No access
24. Agate-1 No access
25. Agate-2 No access
26. 1. The Lamb No access
  2. The Pheasant and the Chicken No access
  3. He Who Died in a Trap No access
27. Motes No access
28. My Tibet No access
29. An Idea of a Wife No access
30. Dream No access
31. All There Is No access
32. The High Place No access
33. Leftovers No access
34. One Day No access
35. The Woman Prisoner No access
36. The Owl No access
37. Joke No access
38. The Three: Sun, Moon, and Stars No access
39. Playing My Own Tune No access
40. Missive Offered to the City Municipality on Behalf of the People No access
41. Many Hands No access
42. Wine No access
43. Mother, I Am Afraid No access
44. Norbu, Beloved Jewel No access
45. One Flower No access
46. Agate-3 No access
47. Agate-4 No access
48. Agate-5 No access
49. Agate-6 No access
50. Agate-8 No access
51. Agate-9 No access
52. The Secret No access
53. Goddess No access
54. An Unbearable Spring No access
55. Each Person No access
56. Semarkar No access
57. My Dream No access
58. Peeling the Skin No access
59. Living Together No access
60. Reflections-Tongue in Cheek-On Poetry No access
61. Translator's Notes No access
1. Jottings on the Prairie No access
2. A Day at the Races No access
3. Your Happiness is Mine too No access
4. The Leaves of a Maple Tree No access
5. Little Red Fox No access
6. The Thigh-Bone Trumpet Player No access
7. The City No access
8. When You Returned No access
9. Play on Body Grammar No access
10. Wife No access
11. Exhaustion No access
12. Practicing Sky Burial No access
13. Jangbu the (Silent) Smithy No access
14. Earring of the Night No access
15. One Kind of Worry No access
16. 1. Meditation Cave No access
  2. Sacrifice No access
  3. The West No access
17. Appearance-Emptiness No access
18. 10 x Me: Many True & Mocking Words about I Myself No access
19. Another Me No access
20. 1. White Foal No access
  2. The River and the Bridge No access
  3. Prince. Eagle. No access
21. Going Home No access
22. Listening to the Snow No access
23. "Ma la y a"-Praise to the Mother (An Acrostic Poem) No access
24. Looking at Myself No access
25. Pigeon No access
26. The Path · Love No access
27. An Old Ruined Fort No access
28. The Reason Why the Wild Yak Died No access
29. The Third Eye No access
30. Thigh-Bone Trumpet No access
31. The World and Human Beings No access
32. You Can Set Me Alight No access
33. Melody: A Dirge to Döndrup Gyel (1952-1985) No access
34. Translator's Notes No access
1. 1. -Dream No access
  2. -For Real No access
2. Soul Born of a Scapula No access
3. The Tale of the Golden Fish No access
4. Lhasa Moon, Lhasa Dawa No access
5. The Lamp No access
6. A Prose Poem: The Bride of Speech No access
7. Fantasy No access
8. The Thing No access
9. Odd Boots No access
10. The Qinghai Tibetan News and I No access
11. Translator's Notes No access
Appendix 1: Publication Credits No access Pages 179 - 182
Appendix 2: Tibetan Spellings No access Pages 183 - 186
About the Author No access Pages 187 - 188
About the Translator No access Pages 189 - 189