The Bird of Happiness

Additional Information

Life and culture in Tibet

1. Images of Tibetan Life
2. Tibetan People
3. Barley and barley bread
4. Tibet Oral History
5. Tibetan food
6. Religion in Tibet
7. Images for Tibetan Mythological creatures

What is this story about

• About a Tibetan village where people where poor and suffering (discuss reasons and the role of natural resources in human life)
• A boy's search to help his village
• About the boy's virtues, ethics and how that helps the village
• We are introduced to the customs in the village
• Names and characters in the Tibetan mythology

Compilations of Tibetan folk tales

1. Folk Tales and Ethics-1
2. Folk Tales and Ethics-2
3. More folk tales
4. More Tibetan stories

Language used in the story

• Translated text
• Who is the translator?
• Some vocabulary specific to mountains
• Some vocabulary which is a slang is also used (for grandfather, etc)
• Written in the past tense
• Third person narrative