The most sacred mountain in Asia (SEE ALL IMAGES)
In the westernmost corner of the Tibet, in the middle of the solitudes of Transhimalaya, is found the holiest mountain from Asia. Up to five religions –Hindus, Buddhists, jainist, sijs y prayer– they have it in that consideration. It is a modest mountain by the standards of the area (6.638 m), but has never been trodden by human beingsprecisely because of his consideration of almost deity. She further , At the top Siva sits on his throne, so it would not be acceptable to disturb his calm.
Mount Kailas is a perfect pyramid. It is often said that about many peaks, but in this case we are talking about a four-sided mountain that is distinguished by its ice cap that resembles frosting, and whose horizontal stripes show the strata of an orogenic uplift prior to the Himalayan mountain range.. That is to say, when the most imposing mountain range in the world was formed, the Kailas was already there.
When the Himalayas were formed, the Kailas was already there
In that isolated region of Tibet, only populated by Tibetan nomads and the detachments of the Chinese army, It so happens that four of the great Asian rivers originate, starting each one of them towards a cardinal point: the Brahmaputra, the indus, el Karnali and el Sutlej. To finish forming the cosmogonic explanation of the importance of the Kailas, at his feet is two twin lakes. He Manasarovar It is rounded in shape, It is associated with the image of the Sun and is also holy. He Raksas Tal draws the arched silhouette that is related to the Moon and Buddhists believe it is the home of the worst demons. A channel unites them, and when the first overflows and transfers water to the second, mitigates his evil.
For all these magic elements, the Kailas is pilgrimage object for centuries. Whoever manages to circle the pyramid on a walk 52 km (which takes at least three days) escapes directly from going to hell. Hindus even bathe in the Gauri Kund lake, about five thousand meters high, to celebrate your new birth.
The pilgrimage season –The winter is long and harsh and the area, impracticable–, begins coinciding with the full moon of the month of may. Then the celebration of Saga Dawa takes place on the esplanades of the south face of Kailas.. It's a festival on which stands a gigantic mast adorned with prayer flags. After some liturgical ceremonies, begins the season in which hundreds of pilgrims of all faiths involved revolve around the holy mountain. In October visits usually stop in the bud, because the temperatures are so low and the winds are so strong that they prevent the walk.
For Tibetan Buddhists, the Kailas is the earthly figure of the mythical mount Meru, he center of the universe. To get to the beginning of the three-day trek you must have mountain experience, acclimatization to altitude (we have to save a hill 5.470 metros) and the tanned epidermis, Well, there is a trip of more than four days by “road” from Lhasa, the capital of the country. It is also possible to undertake the experience traveling from the remote Nepalese valley of Humla Karnali, but then it requires a previous week-long walk on the south side of the mountain range, under the sure presence of the monsoon rains.
The reward for those physical hardships: the experience of being in the shadow of the most sacred mountain in Asia, a pure landscape of infinite skies, one of the last corners of the Earth where human beings have not managed to dissipate even an iota of their primal magic.
