A report on Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar

Thangka depicting Mount Kailash
Lake Manasarovar with Mount Kailash in the distance.
Mount Naimona'nyi (Gurla Mandhata) and Lake Manasarovar
Map of the region
An 18th-century map of lake Manasarovar by the Jesuit Joseph Tiefenthaler.
Satellite view of lakes Manasarovar (right) and Rakshastal with Mount Kailash in the background
View from Chiu Gompa Monastery
The trail to Manasarovar lake
Small temples and stupa near the lake
Buddhist Prayer flags on the shore
Monuments and Mount Kailash near the lake
Mount Kailash sunset

Lake Manasarovar (Sanskrit: मानसरोवर), also called mTsho Mapham or mTsho Ma-dros-pa locally; , is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

- Lake Manasarovar

The mountain is located near Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal, close to the source of some of the longest Asian rivers: the Indus; Sutlej; Brahmaputra; and Karnali, also known as Ghaghara (a tributary of the Ganges) in India.

- Mount Kailash
Thangka depicting Mount Kailash

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View South from Rakshas Tal Lake (2006)

Lake Rakshastal

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View South from Rakshas Tal Lake (2006)

Lake Rakshastal (Sanskrit: राक्षसताल; ) is a saltwater lake in Tibet Autonomous Region, China, lying just west of Lake Manasarovar and south of Mount Kailash.

Sutlej

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Longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.

Longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.

Sutlej Valley from Rampur c. 1857
Using inflated animal skins to cross the Sutlej River, c. 1905
Sutlej River in Kinnaur Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
Cattle grazing on the banks of the river in Rupnagar, Punjab, India
Satluj River near Shahkot, Punjab, India
Sutlej entering India from Tibet near Shipki La, c. 1856

The Zhangzhung built a towering palace in the Upper Sutlej Valley called Kyunglung, the ruins of which still exist today near the village of Moincêr, southwest of Mount Kailash (Mount Ti-se).

Of four rivers (Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra and Karnali/Ganges) mythically flowing out of holy Lake Manasarovar, the Sutlej is actually connected by channels that are dry most of the time.

Brahmaputra River

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Trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, India, and Bangladesh.

Trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, India, and Bangladesh.

Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet
Yarlung Tsangpo
Brahmaputra basin in India
A view of sunset in the Brahmaputra from Dibrugarh
Rivers of Bangladesh, including the Brahmaputra
The Brahmaputra River from Space
Rowing competition of Sualkuchi at Brahmaputra River
Flooded villages along the Brahmaputra
Brahmaputra River seen from a SPOT satellite
The Brahmaputra and its tributaries in northeastern India and Bangladesh
James Rennell's 1776 map shows the Brahmaputra's flow before an earthquake on 2 April 1762 and the Teesta River flowing in three channels to the Ganga before a flood in 1787.
Silhouette of a fisherman on boat during sunset at Brahmaputra River
An Aerial view of the Dhola–Sadiya Bridge
Ranaghat Bridge or Churni River Bridge on Brahmaputra River near Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh

With its origin in the Manasarovar Lake region, near Mount Kailash, on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet where it is known as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows along southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges (including the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) and into Arunachal Pradesh.

Ngari Prefecture

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Prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Mount Kailash in Burang County

Ngari is best known for Mount Kailash, also called Sumeru, and Lake Manasarovar.