BEIJING (AFP) - A 13-year-old Tibetan schoolboy has miraculously
memorized large parts of the world's longest poem after having had
a mysterious dream.
Sitar Doje, a fifth-grader from Qamdo prefecture, had his dream two
years ago and can now recite "The Life of King Gesar" for up to six
hours on end, the Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.
The agency says Tibet has a long tradition of people waking from
sleep inexplicably able to recite the poem from memory.
Most of these "God-taught Masters", however, are much older than
Sitar Doje and are usually illiterate, the agency said.
The lengthy 1,000-year old epic is also cherished by Mongolians and
has given rise to a whole field of study referred to as
"Gesarology", Xinhua said.
