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Dec. 14, 2013
Kunzang Choden
Biography
The author Künzang Choden was born in Bumthang, central Bhutan in the year of the dragon (1952). It was during her childhood that Bhutan had opted to shed its self-imposed isolation for modernization and socioeconomic development. Several years later, it was the author’s interest in folklore, and her concern that much of her country’s cultural heritage would be lost in this transitional period, that motivated her to compile the folktales of this remote Himalayan kingdom. She is the first writer to chronicle her country’s oral tradition in English. The Yeti in Bhutan is her second book. She has also authored Folktales of Bhutan, which was published in 1994 by White Lotus.
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Books
Folktales of Bhutan
by Kunzang Choden
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 55,020.
Language:
English.
Published: September 30, 2016
by
Proglen.
Categories:
Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general, Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Asia
From the author of Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti another dip into the library of the storytellers from the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. Folktales of Bhutan is a collection of thirty-eight folktales and legends and is a first attempt by a Bhutanese to record in English the oral tradition of this kingdom in the eastern Himalayas.
Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti
by Kunzang Choden
Price:
$7.95 USD.
Words: 43,590.
Language:
English.
Published: December 14, 2013
by
Proglen.
Categories:
Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general, Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Asia
Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti is a collection of twenty-two stories set in four different regions of Bhutan. The presence of the yeti is ubiquitous to the kingdoms of the Himalayas, where beliefs and attitudes related to it go beyond scientific judgment and analysis. The Bhutanese consider the yeti, or the migoi, to be an essential part of the backdrop of their existence.