The Fluid Lives of Tibetan Ritual Narrations during the Imperial and Post-Imperial Period By daniel berounsky

https://www.academia.edu/117345549/The_Fluid_Lives_of_Tibetan_Ritual_Narrations_during_the_Imperial_and_Post_Imperial_Period?email_work_card=title An important element of ritual performance was voicing (Tib. gyer) the ritual narrations (Tib. smrang), in order to infuse the ritual with meaning. Surviving origination myth accounts (Tib. rabs, related to ‘lineage/succession’) probably reflect a later tendency to assemble various originally locally based myths within single collections of such narrations spanning larger areas of Tibeta