The Bird of Happiness

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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

Additional Information

Life and culture in Tibet

Compilations of Tibetan folk tales

Folk Tales and Ethics-1

Folk Tales and Ethics-2

More folk tales

More Tibetan stories

Tibet Oral History

http://www.inyatrust.com/editor/uploads/7/5/2/9/7529832/185003695108296584_10th_english_question_bank_-2014-15.pdf

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