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This paper explores the bibliographic history of the story of Nangsa Ohbum (snang sa `od `bum or snang gsal `od `bum or a lce snang gsal or snang sa or snang bza' 'od 'bum). Nangsa Ohbum was a women born in Central Tibet in the 11th century, whose tale has emerged in three genres of Tibetan literature: resurrection tales (`das log), religious biography (rnam thar) and performance scripts (`khrab gzhung). Nangsa Ohbum has also emerged as a character in Tibetan opera (a lce lha mo) and is still performed to this day. Despite questions of the authenticity of Nangsa Ohbum’s biography, she persists as an important icon of early Tibetan women in modern scholarship. Using Rey Chow’s critique of post-structuralism, this paper attempts to parse out previously convoluted interpretations of Nangsa Ohbum as an historical woman, a character of Tibetan literature and performance and a representative of Tibetan women in academic discourse scholars. |
