vJam-dpal-rgya-mtsho, "Gesar" and Tibetan Culture, Inner Mongolia University Press, Hohhot, May 1994. 331 pp. 20 cm. ISBN 7-81015-395-1. China National Minorities Epics Study Series.

A detailed account of the Tibetan epic King Gesar from the angle of cultural studies, divided into ten chapters: the historical process; the structural form of three units convering; a flowing big river; the mountain god, the war god, and totem worship; the soul placed on the outside world and the reincarnation of the soul; dreams, diviation and sorcery; tribal alliances and tribal consciousness; the struggles between Buddhism and Bon religion and the development of Gesar; Gesar -- the god of the Tibetan people; the peopl"s poet -- ballad singers of Gesar. With a preface by Rin-chen-rdo-rje.