Giclee Print by Sunlal Ratna Tamang
8.3" x 11.7" This thangka print depicts Gesar, the legendary king who ruled over the eastern Tibetan Kingdom of Ling about a thousand years ago. The Gesar epic is believed to be longest narrative poem in existence, which, although not compiled into any definitive textual form, probably consists of more than a million verses. Various oral traditions of the Gesar legends are still extant throughout many areas of Central Asia, Mongolia and Tibet, with the shamans or mediums that recite these long ballads from memory often receiving these transmissions through dreams or trance states.