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Area:Inner Mongolia,Sichuan Province,Yunnan Province, Tibet,Gansu Province,Qinghai Province, andXinjiangUygur Autonomous Region Declarer: Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, Tibet, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, The Gesar Study Office of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences King Gesaris a heroic Tibetan epic.

"Life of King Gesar" is the Tibetan people a heroic epic collectively created. It was originally more than a thousand years of Tibetan folklore of oral literature, is now finishing a book. More than 120 book, more than 100 million line of poetry, more than 2000 million words, is the world's longest epic, the international community was called "Homer the East."

The word saga is the Norse word for a song or recitation detailing the acts of founding members of a lineage or society, including the circumstances of those events. A saga often includes accounts of intrigue, betrayal, and bloody battle. An epic is similar, but the word has an ancient Greek origin.

King Gesar tells the following story: Long, long ago, natural and man-made calamities occurred all over Tibet and all forces of evil trampled on the masses. To deliver all living creatures from torment, the Goddess of Mercy begged Amitabha to send the Son of God to the world to vanquish demons and monsters.

Just as the Greeks had the Iliad and the medieval Europeans had the legends of King Arthur, Tibetans had the Epic of King Gesar. The Epic of King Gesar is rooted from folklore and oral history passed down from Tibetan generations and its written origins can be traced back to 1716 when it was ordered to be translated from Tibetan by the Qing Emperor.