ABSTRACT
My work has moved in a variety of directions since 1993, not aB of them represented here. The Tibetan epic of Ge-sar of gLing was one major focus for my research in the early 1990s (e.g. Samuel 1991a, 1991 b, 1994, 1996, 2002a). I plan to present my material on Ge-sar in revised form as part of a joint book with Professor Yang Enhong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, so I have included only one item on Ge-sar here (Chapter Eight). A research project on Tibetan health and medicine in Dalhousie (in Himachal Pradesh, North India) in 1996 has led to three recent published articles, all in easily accessible volumes. (Samuel 1999, Samuel 2001a, Rozario and Samuel 2002), and I have chosen to include none of these in the present collection. Another series of recent papers explores comparisons between the religions of South and Southeast Asia and contemporary Western paganism (Samuel 1998, 2001b,
2002b); these have again been omitted in order to retain a sharper focus for the present collection.
