【答案解析】The world-famous Life of King Gesar，a long and Valuable heroic epic created by the Tibetan people over a considerable long period of time，is a rare literary treasure of China and the entire world. However, it has all along been passed down by folk artists orally. To better protect it，the regional authorities set up special bodies in 1979 for the collection, research, editing and publishing of the Life of King Gesar. The State included it in the key scientific research project lists of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Five-Year plans. //After 20 years' efforts, nearly 300 handwritten or block-printed Tibetan volumes have been collected. Among them, except 100 variant volumes, about 70 volumes have been formally published in the Tibetan language, with a total print run of well over three million copies. Thus, this epic, which had for long centuries been known only to a few folk artists, has come out as a systematically complete literary masterpiece that is called "the king of world epics. " In addition, over 20 volumes of the Chinese edition have been published, and some have been translated into English, Japanese and French, and distributed all over the world. This was an unprecedented achievement in protecting the Tibetan literary and art heritage, as well as in publishing history. // Modern Tibetan literature and art have developed greatly in the process of combining with the traditional formats, styles and characteristics. After the peaceful liberation of Tibet, a group of literary and art workers from different ethnic groups went into the thick of life in Tibet to explore and inherit the fine aspects of the local literature and art tradition. They created a lot of poems, novels, songs, dances, fine art works, films and photos, introducing new literary and artistic ideas and creation experience to the then closed or semi-closed parts of Tibet. //