Kailash, China

Travel Blogs from Kailash (12)

Tibet Transects: Axis Mundi, Mt. Kailash, Manasarovar, and Guge Kingdom, Tibet, China travel blog
Tibet Transects: Axis Mundi
Jul 6, 2006

... followed by a cold rain that further erodes the sandstones. This is a landscape of Change. Even the abode of Shiva and Chorlo Demchok--Mt. Kailash--will one day disappear. They will have to find another home somewhere else, another axis-mundi.

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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Team Kora, Mt. Kailash, China travel blog
Team Kora
Jul 16, 2006

... duality: differences between people, places, and things are simply illusions of this world. With mountains as important as Kailash, a Power Place, the unity is even more potent. After 108 koras, you are guaranteed enlightenment and nirvana. Part of ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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Violent Buddhist Superheroes at Mt. Kailash, Mt. Kailash, China travel blog
Violent Buddhist Superheroes at Mt. Kailash
Jul 15, 2006

... to have reached the summit, although you could still call it an "unclimbed mountain." Naro conceded, and Mt. Kailash became a principal Buddhist mountain. Still, Bonpos revere the mountain and circumambulate it anti-clockwise. Buddhism was not ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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Mount Kailash, Mount Kailash, China travel blog
Mount Kailash
Oct 8, 2006

Finally there! After lots of long drives Mount Kailash finally came into view. Indian pilgrims were already prostrating at the point where we first layed eyes on the mountain - Our driver dropped us not at the starting point of the Kora, but about 3km from ...

A travel blog entry by rutgervd

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