Question
This character marries Brugmo, a neighboring chieftain’s daughter, after winning a horse race at the age of twelve. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this king of Ling who titles a million-verse epic originally from Tibet. In that epic, this king fights enemies such as his uncle Krothung and the neighboring Kingdom of Hor.
ANSWER: Gesar (“GAY-sar”) [or Kesar; or Geser; or King Gesar]
[10m] In some versions of the Epic of Gesar, he is nursed by one of these animals. In Balinese myth, the demon queen Rangda fights the heroic king Barong, who is most often depicted as one of these animals.
ANSWER: lions [or lionesses; prompt on cats]
[10e] Scholars interpret Gesar as a manifestation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who blessed one of these animals to marry the ogress Sinmo and become the progenitor of the Tibetans. The Buddha drops a mountain on top of a “king” of these animals, Sun Wukong.
ANSWER: monkeys [accept apes]
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