The Tale of the Incomparable Prince
A southern king who has waited his whole reign for an heir finally gets one born with the marks of a great being, and the boy grows into a prince every neighbouring court wants either as a son-in-law or dead. Sent to win a princess already promised elsewhere, he is drawn into wars, poisonings and a long education in how little any of it holds still, all of it staged with the full apparatus of Sanskrit poetics — punning verse, catalogues of flowers, elephants in rut. A Tibetan minister at the Qing-backed Lhasa court wrote it in the 1720s, and it is the one work Tibetan tradition itself calls a novel.
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