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An 18th-century tale in this language about an evil stepmother who banishes an “incomparable prince” has been billed as its only “pre-exile” novel. A demonic horde inspired a poet in this language to compose an ecstatic dohā about drinking beer, one of his Hundred Thousand Songs. A murderous translator from this language’s “Renaissance” of 950 to 1200 CE inspired The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat, which typifies its namtar genre of hagiographies, like Sky Dancer and The Life of Milarepa. (10[1])This language’s “dream-taught bards” originated a million-line poem about a godling who wins a horse race to become King of Ling. The Wylie (10[2])system (10[2])can (10[1])transliterate (10[1])this (10[1])language’s (-5[1])Epic of King Gesar (10[2]-5[1])and its (10[1])Nyingma (“neeng-MAH”) funerary text (-5[1])about three liminal states of rebirth. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the Bardo Thodol (10[2])is nicknamed what language’s “Book of the Dead”? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Tibetan [or bod; accept Tibetic languages, Bodish, Dzongkha, Bhutanese, Dbus-gtsang skad, Ü-tsang kä, Khams, Khamké, A-mdo’i skad, Amdolese, Balti, sbal ti, Chöke, Lha-sa’i skad, Lhaséké, Lasägä, or Classical Tibetan; accept Tibetan Book of the Dead or Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] (Tshe ring dbang rgyal wrote The Tale of the Incomparable Prince. The other biographies concern Ra Losatwa and Yeshe Tsogyal.)
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