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The epic of Gesar, the warrior king of Ling, is among the longest in the world, and it is not read but sung. Its bards carry hundreds of hours of it, and the best of them say they did not learn it but received it. It is performed across Tibet, Mongolia and the Himalaya, and it was inscribed by UNESCO in 2009. The pages here will present the story, the bards, and the performance.