Manshuud Emegeev

{{Short description|Buryat Gesar performer (1849–1909)}}

Manshuud Emegeev (1849–1909), frequently dubbed "the Homer of the Buryats",{{cite journal |last1=Spaldon |first1=Jegmet |date=2022 |title=Shaping Buryatia Cultural Identity though Gesar Epic |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27203919 |journal=The Tibet Journal |volume=XIVII |issue=1 |pages=31–44 [36] |jstor=27203919}} is the first known reciter of Gesar whose performances were transcribed.

He recited "two very different tripartite Geser-cycles that were preserved on paper for posterity", firstly in 1900 by Jeremiah Curtin and published in English in 1909,{{cite book |last1=Curtin |first1=Jeremiah |title=A Journey in Southern Siberia |date=1909 |location=Boston}} and in 1906 by Jamsrangiin Tseveen,{{cite book |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Jonathan |title=Becoming – Geser, Becoming – Buryat: Oral Epic and the Politics of Navigating Four Identity Crises |date=2019 |publisher=Australian National University PhD Thesis |page=37}} published in 1930.{{cite book |last1=Chakars |first1=Melissa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hNvEAAAQBAJ |title=The socialist way of life in Siberia : transformation in Buryatia |date=2014 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=9789633860137 |location=Budapest |page=19}}

He appears in Curtin's work as 'Manshut', with a photograph of him seated.

The later publication by Jamsrangiin Tseveen in Russian has been regarded as 'an act of resistance using "modern" tools to preserve the Buryat culture.{{cite journal |last1=Sweet |first1=Elizabeth L. |last2=Chakars |first2=Melissa |title=Identity, Culture, Land, and Language: Stories of Insurgent Planning in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia |journal=Journal of Planning Education and Research |date=December 2010 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=198–209 |doi=10.1177/0739456X10381997}}

The collection of materials made by Tseveen, including other texts, are held in St. Petersburg.{{cite book |last1=Kulʹganek |first1=I. V. |title=Katalog mongoloi︠a︡zychnykh folʹklornykh materialov Arkhiva vostokovedov pri SPbF IV RAN |date=2000 |publisher=Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie |location=Sankt-Peterburg |isbn=5-85803-149-8}} A brief biography appeared in 1993,{{cite book |last1=Шерхунаев |first1=Раднай Андреевич |title=Маншут Имегеев, певец 'Гэсэра': очерк жизни и деятельности |date=1993 |location=Иркутск |language=Russian}} and he is commemorated by a statue.{{cite web |title=В бурятском селе Приангарья установили скульптуру первого сказителя Гэсэра |url=https://burunen.ru/news/society/101553-v-buryatskom-sele-priangarya-ustanovili-skulpturu-pervogo-skazitelya-gesera-/ |website=БУРЯАД YНЭН |language=Russian |date=27 Sep 2023}}