The kora of Mt. Kailash, Tibet: Photos 21 to 31

Hi,
Mt. Kailash is a holy mountain to more than just one religion. Asia is full of legends about a great mountain, which has four faces (Peacock, Elephant, Lion, and Horse), each composed of a different material (gold, crystal, ruby, and lapis lazuli), and from the mouth of each face flows a great river. Mt. Kailash is believed to be it. It is an amazing mountain, almost pyramid shaped with four faces, and four great rivers of the Indian sub-continent flow from its area: Karnali (which feeds the Ganges), Indus, Sutlej, and Brahmapurta.
The mountain is 6714m high, and has never been climbed, because people who got permits to climbed it were under international pressure not to do it because of the special nature of the mountain.
For the Hindus - it is the domain of Shiva, the Destroyer and the Transformer. To the Buddhist it is the kingdom of Demchok, a wrathful manifestation of Sakyamuni, the Historical Buddha. The Jains also believe their saints were emancipated here, and the Bon (the ancient religion in Tibet) believe that their founder alighted from heaven here.
Many pilgrims of all religions come to worship the mountain and to walk around it. The route

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I forwarded your URL to friends so that they could get to know something about Mt Kailash and the Tibetan people. Your text is very well written and the pictures capture Mount Kailash, the Tibetan People and the beauty of the Tibetan Plateau all the way down to the mountains in India. My friends enjoyed your travel documentary and were amazed that there is a place like this, so different from American way of life. We must never forget that the Chinese government is doing everything possible to minimize and destroy the Tibetan culture, language and people. It is a reminder of governments who try to dominate other people all over the world. I walked across the Himalayas and then the kora around Mt Kailash in 1999 with two Swiss friends. It will remain a special memory over my lifetime. Thanks for a great travel diary. John Shanahan Denver, Colorado e-mail: acorncreekco1@yahoo.com website: www.independencepeaks.com

Yes I agree that the Chinese are determined to destroy the Tibetan people and their culture and maybe, as all lovers of this wonderful land and its wonderful people, we should all try to do our best to make our Governments see this and to do something about it. The problem is that the British and US governments are turning a blind eye because business with the Chinese is good and in their books, MONEY IS ALL THAT MATTERS - FORGET THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURES!!! God forbid the day the Chinese decide to rise up against them, not impossible!!

Thanks for a great trip!

Though dude I live in India and am closer to Tibet than you are ur Blog provided a lot of important information for a school presentation I had to submit thx a lot

Hi, I am planning a trekking trip to Mt.Kailash this June and from what I have read it has given me an indeapth picture of what to expect and the pictures also gave me a good sense of what to look forward to. Thank you. Your text is very well written.

Hi, I made kora around Mt.Kailash 3 times - twice in 1992 and ones in 1995, I think it was in August. All this done without drivers, yaks, porters, permits. I hitchhiked with lokals all the way from Lhasa, slept in the tent or with the pilgrims. It was very hard time , I will never forget it.

I forwarded your URL to friends so that they could get to know something about Mt Kailash and the Tibetan people. Your text is very well written and the pictures capture Mount Kailash, the Tibetan People and the beauty of the Tibetan Plateau all the way down to the mountains in India. My friends enjoyed your travel documentary and were amazed that there is a place like this, so different from American way of life. We must never forget that the Chinese government is doing everything possible to minimize and destroy the Tibetan culture, language and people. It is a reminder of governments who try to dominate other people all over the world. I walked across the Himalayas and then the kora around Mt Kailash in 1999 with two Swiss friends. It will remain a special memory over my lifetime. Thanks for a great travel diary. John Shanahan Denver, Colorado e-mail: acorncreekco1@yahoo.com website: www.independencepeaks.com

Yes I agree that the Chinese are determined to destroy the Tibetan people and their culture and maybe, as all lovers of this wonderful land and its wonderful people, we should all try to do our best to make our Governments see this and to do something about it. The problem is that the British and US governments are turning a blind eye because business with the Chinese is good and in their books, MONEY IS ALL THAT MATTERS - FORGET THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURES!!! God forbid the day the Chinese decide to rise up against them, not impossible!!

Thanks for a great trip!

Though dude I live in India and am closer to Tibet than you are ur Blog provided a lot of important information for a school presentation I had to submit thx a lot

Hi, I am planning a trekking trip to Mt.Kailash this June and from what I have read it has given me an indeapth picture of what to expect and the pictures also gave me a good sense of what to look forward to. Thank you. Your text is very well written.

Hi, I made kora around Mt.Kailash 3 times - twice in 1992 and ones in 1995, I think it was in August. All this done without drivers, yaks, porters, permits. I hitchhiked with lokals all the way from Lhasa, slept in the tent or with the pilgrims. It was very hard time , I will never forget it.