By Russell Johnson
* The list of a religious trip via a unprecedented land, and of the committed pilgrims who search to climb Mount Kailas. * american citizens recount their stories in the course of the sacred pilgrimage to at least one of the main overseas in the world. * With greater than a hundred colour photos that trap the awe-inspiring panorama and the tireless decision of the pilgrims.
In a distant nook of western Tibet, in a single of the top, such a lot pristine locations in the world, rises an elegant snow-clad pyramid of rock and snow--Mount Kailas. To Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims this 22,028-foot mountain is the throne of the gods, the "Navel of the Earth," where the place the divine takes earthly shape. For greater than one thousand years those pilgrims have journeyed the following to pay homage to the mountain's secret, circumambulating it in an historic ritual of devotion that keeps to the current day. Spinning prayer wheels, chanting mantras, and prostrating themselves at shrines, the pilgrims make the laborious climb towards the actual and emotional excessive aspect of the adventure, the lofty move often called the Dolma l. a..
With stunning colour images and bright shuttle writing, The Sacred Mountain of Tibet presents a gorgeous account of this awe-inspiring panorama, and of the diversity, energy, and sheer selection of the pilgrims who enterprise there. either photographer Russell Johnson and author Kerry Moran have made the tough pilgrimage round the mountain a number of instances. The Sacred Mountain of Tibet is the list in their inspiring trip that opens a window on a mystical land of natural gentle and mind-blowing colour the place the temporal and the everlasting unite and the place each function of the panorama holds its personal divinity.
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H e r e in the shadow o f Kailas, the sky burial ce rem o n y is p e r f o rm e d when a d e a th o c c u rs a m o n g local people. Bodies are ritually d ism e m b e re d and fed to the birds in a last act o f co m p assio n , a final offering to living beings. Below the cliffs rises the th irty -fo o t flagpole o f T a r b o c h e , a brilliant fluttering mass set ag ainst b la ck-shadow ed canyon walls. P ilg rim s p a ra d e a b o u t it in single file, a wheel o f ritual b en eath the m ountain, while p r o s tr a to r s s tretch o u t on the path a r o u n d it, inching a b o u t m ore slowly.
T h e L o rd V ish n u floated in it fo r an eternity , d re a m in g , until thè lite f o rc e stirred , and o u t o f the w a te r ’s infinite potential sp r a n g f o rth all o f C re a tio n . T h e s e a n c ie n t m yths have their basis in geologie fiact. F o rty million years ago the ‘When th e e a rth o f M anasarovar to u c h e s a n y o n e ’s body, o r w h e n a n y o n e b a th es in th e lake, h e shall go to thè Paradise o f B rahm a, an d he w ho d rin k s its w a te rs shall go to th e h ea v e n of Shiva an d shall be re le a se d from th è sins o f a h u n d re d births.
It was as im p e n e t r able as the ad a m a n tin e vajra which to B uddhists symbolizes the A b so lu te . T h e m o u n ta in was p erfec t, p e rfe c t b ey o n d the rig ht o f any n atu ra l th in g to be, a n d the d elib eraten e ss im plied in its fo rm poin te d to a hig h e r reality - a realm which m an in his im pe rfe ctio n c a n n o t directly a p p ro a c h , and so m u st r e s o r t to sym bolism to spe ak o f the u nspe aka ble. It is perfec t, b u t we are not, and so it is a s ta te m e n t only dimly c o m p r e h e n d e d by o u r p r e se n t m inds, a p ow er sensed yet u n articu la ted , inaccessible to reason.