How the half-human, half-god Tibetan king conquered the devils

King Gesar

Sitar Doje, a 20-year old Tibetan, is the youngest known singer of the "King Gesar" ballad/creation myth:

Legend has it that when he was 11, however, he had a strange dream. "I dreamed I was taken to the tent of King Gesar, on a grassland I'd never been to. Someone said, in Tibetan, 'Yes, he's the person we're looking for' and forced a huge pile of books into my mouth."

The next day, he felt his throat was choked and saw long lines of text scrolling in front of his eyes. "They were like subtitles on the film screen and I felt my head was about to burst."

The strange sensation drove Sitar Doje, then a third-grader at primary school, out of control and he began singing loudly for nearly two hours in class.