The Story of King Gesar
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The Story of King Gesar

Update: Sep. 4th, 2013

King Gesar

As we all know, Tibet is a mysterious place of the world, which attracts lots of tourists and explorers to visit even though it is not very easy to go. There are full of highland snow mountains, oxygen pressure, life-threaten high altitude sickness, and amazing legends and stories of this holy land. Did you hear the story of the King Gesar in Tibet? It wins the universal praise of all the legends talked by ordinary Tibetan people. Tibetan people are highly proud of the successors of the King Gesar and even excited about every connections with him. It will be a part of interesting attractions of your experience during Tibet tour.

The Story of King Gesar

It plays very important role for a nation to have their own age-old history and profound culture. Tibetan history and culture have been succeeded for thousands of years, but the using of Tibetan characters has been only available for about 1000 years. Before Tibetan characters created, Tibetan stories and legends are succeeded by generations of the storytellers. Hence, each story has been understood and told by different ways in history. Since AD 7th century, the competition between Bon Sect and Buddhist Sect has not been continued until the victory of Buddhist sect. Afterwards, many Tibetan people changed to believe Buddha instead of the Bon Sect. Hence, the books of the King Gesar have been ever prohibited as there were lots of religious ceremonies of Bon Sect. But the story of the King Gesar has been very important part of local Tibetan's life, it has been changed to related to Buddha and succeeded successfully.

It is said that long long ago, people lived in the snow-covered plateau were so poor that suffered the horrible hungry life and wars. Avalokitesvara begged to be delegated there to help people. Finally, one of the other celestial was required to be there. He was Gesar. Before this celestial went to this remote plateau, the daughter of the Dragon King of the East China Sea was required to be his father after the reincarnation. She was named Dumu.

Dumu was a very beautiful girl who was paid court by many brave men. Finally, the leader of one of the tribes which called "Lingko" got married with her. Later on, Dumu was pregnant. People were very happy because it was the first baby of their leader's. The magnificent ceremony was greatly held by their people.

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