Mt. Kailash, China

Travel Blogs from Mt. Kailash (6)

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

... person 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 ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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Mt. Kailash Kora and the Birthday Party, Mt. Kailash, Tibet, China travel blog
Mt. Kailash Kora and the Birthday Party
Oct 1, 2006

... Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Bon (the native Tibetan religion). Four major rivers that have nourished Asia all emerged from Mt. Kailash. It is believed to be unexceedingly auspicious to walk around the mountain. In Tibetan, this is called "kora". ...

A travel blog entry by globalfly

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