The Longest Epic in the World-----The Biography of King Gesar of Ling
The heroic epic,"The Biography of King Gesar"in the form of a talk-sing ballad, is the longest folklore epic in the world. There are 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 lines in the poetry not including the prose. The complete epic is estimated to require printing in 36 volumes, with 15,000,000 words.
Education: Opening the Door to Women The traditional symbol of learning in Tibet used to be the stairs leading to the gold roof of the Potala Palace. Young men climbed the stairs in preparation for the supreme goal - unification of the state and the monastery. Women constituted more than half of the Tibetan population, but they never had the chance to participate in the government. Most of them, including the majority of women from noble families, were illiterate.
Some symbols recur on the walls of almost every temple, shrine and monastery, or on the walls of private houses. The most common decorative motifs of all are the Eight Sacred Emblems of Buddhism, as follows:
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