Kailash: a Spiritual Journey
I became enchanted by Tibet since I read Hesse's Siddhartha in high school, and with Kailash since I started practicing Yoga, more than thirty years ago. I definitely placed it on my ToDo list twenty years ago, after reading phenomenal article in National Geographic Adventure: http://www.ece.uah.edu/~jovanov/tmp/Kailas_Adventure.pdf Interestingly enough, on my first trip to Tibet, my best friend and roommate was Siddhartha :) The holy walk around Mount Kailash is known as Kora, Tibetan word for circling around sacred object. Kora is important for four religions: Hinduism: Mount Kailash as the abode of Lord Shiva Buddhism: Demchok and spiritual liberation Jainism: Ashtapada, site of Rishabhadeva’s liberation Bon: Axis mundi of ancient cosmology Outer Kora is 52 km long starting at Darchen at elevation 4,600 m with the highest point of Dolma La pass at 5,630 m. According to the rules, Inner Kora with the accesss to the particularly sacred places at the base of ...