The Warrior Song of King Gesar
Douglas Penick graduated from Princeton University, was a research associate at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at The Institute for Urban Studies, and a chef at Gordon Matta Clark's Food. He studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism for more than 30 years, and has written and taught on Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian religion, history and culture. He wrote the National Film Board of Canada's prize winning two part series on the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the libretti for two operas:King Gesar(Sony CD w/ Ma, Serkin, Ax et. al.) andAshoka's Dream  (Santa Fe Opera) with composer, Peter Lieberson. He's also written pieces to music by Philip Glass, for choreographer Katsura Kan, and on commission from the New York Philharmonic, the Boulder Symphony, Denver Eclectic Concerts and others. He is the author of three books deriving from the epic cycle on the life of King Gesar of Ling:Crossings on a Bridge of Light,Warrior Song of King GesarandThe Brilliance of Naked Mind.His novelA Journey of The North Starwill be brought out by Publerati this spring. Short fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in Bombay Gin, The Shambhala Sun, Parabola, Porte Des Singes, Cahiers de L'Herne, Publishers Weekly and elsewhere.