Gesar of Ling

THE SWEEP FOUND HIM IN TWO NEIGHBOURING TRADITIONS AND NOT IN HIS OWN. buryat_geser and mongol_gesar are both in the corpus; the Tibetan key that the epic belongs to held nothing. That is the reverse of the failure lane 25 documented and lane 26 sharpened - there a sweep flattered a tradition by hitting other traditions' records, and here the same mechanism hid an absence in plain sight, because a reader checking whether the corpus 'had Gesar' would have been told yes. NO EDGE AND NO EQUATION IS WRITTEN to either of those records: how the epic travelled between Tibet, Mongolia and Buryatia is a question about transmission, and this programme does not write transmission as a relation between beings. He is authored deity on the strength of the source's own statement that he came to be seen as a full tantric deity; his heavenly origin means he has no parents to seed, and he carries a verified-solitary verdict rather than a manufactured edge.

Domains

• heroic kingship
• subjugation of demons
• dzogchen protection

Sources

• Reference treatment of the Epic of King Gesar: Gesar of Ling was a legendary king in Tibetan and Central Asian mythology, and the epic, believed to be approximately a thousand years old, concerns the fearless king Gesar, who was sent down from Heaven to conquer the many negative spirits and demons that dominated Tibet, and who ruled the legendary Kingdom of Ling; it is considered the world's longest epic and has been described as the world's largest epic tradition; Gesar is a spiritual leader but also a magician and a trickster, and in later centuries is also seen as a full-fledged tantric deity and an important figure of the Dzogchen tradition.