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the Kailash Mansarovar.
There are various ways to access the Kailash Mansarovar. Tibet
Travel Tour truly wants you to enjoy the beauty and also the
pilgrimage to this Holy place. The Mount Kailash and Lake
Mansarovar Yatra covers about 18 days. In this yatra, all
pilgrims will be taken to the great countryside of far western
Tibet and numerous holy monasteries before reaching the base
of Mount Kailash. For those persons who feel that trekking on
the entire route might be too difficult, yaks and horses can
be hired for an additional cost. Before reaching Mount Kailash,
the pilgrims will go to the nearby holy waters of Lake
Mansarovar, known as the Lake of Consciousness and
Enlightenment, where they will have the opportunity to take a
sacred bath and perform Puja on the banks.
History of Mount Kailash
As long as there have been ancient religions in Asia, there
has been a reverence for Mount Kailash. The religions of
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism consider the Mount Kailash as
the center and birthplace of the entire world. Kailash is
considered as the mythical Mt. Meru in the Vedas. The mountain
was indeed legendary even before the great Hindu epics, the
Ramayana and the Mahabharata, were written. Most of the Hindus
believe Mount Kailash to be the home of Lord Shiva. According
to Sanskrit literature, the Lord Shiva lives on Mt. Kailash
where he spends his time practicing yogic austerities with his
divine consort, Parvati. For a Hindu, to make the Yatra to
Kailash and have the darshan (divine view) of Shiva's home is
to get release from the clutches of ignorance and delusion.
The Tibetan Buddhists call the mountain as King Rimpoche, the
'Precious One of Glacial Snow'. It is called as Astapada, the
place where Rishaba (the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras)
attained liberation by Jains. And for followers of Bon,
Tibet's pre-Buddhist religion, Kailash is Mount Tise - the
site of a 12th century battle between the Buddhist sage
Milarepa and the Bon shaman Naro Bon-chung. |
