A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga. Tibetan Text; English Abstract of Contents; Notes and Vocabularies; and Appendices

The Mran-ma later known as the Byammd conquered the Rmafi or Mons and absorbed them and adopted their Indian culture and became the Burmese people : the history of Burma has been the history of a long conflict between the Mran-mg and the Rmafi between the Sino-Tibetan Burmans and the Austro-Asiatic Mons and it ended in a final triumph of the Northern Sino-Tibetan invaders the Mons dying as [...] Like the Hindu conception of Pump and Prakrti or aiva and Sakti like the similar Chinese conception of Yang or the Male Principle ^ nd Yin or the Female Principle operating in the creation and maintenance of the universe the Tibetans also have the idea of Yab-Yum or 'Father and Mother' of the Male and Female Principles. [...] He is a National Hero of the type of Rama and Arjuna of India Rustam of Persia Gilgamesh of the Assyrio-Babylonians David of the Jews Herakles and Akhilleus of ancient Greece Sigurd-Siegfried of the old Germanic world King Arthur of the British (Welsh) and Cuchulainn and Finn of the ancient Irish: an embodiment of the highest ideals and aspirations of a whole people for centuries. [...] Only the Tibetan texts of the Sheh Version and of the Stories of the Paladins are not given: these will be found respectively in the Memoirs of the Helsingfors Finno-Ugrian Society) as noted above and in the Journal and Proceedings of the (Royal) Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1906 and 1907. [...] And the members of the Mongol race in America even the civilised Toltecs Aztecs and Mayas and the rest of the Mexico and Yucatan and Central America peoples and the Quechuas and Aymar.s and other peoples of South America are equally lacking in the matter of a great hero tale.