A report on Mount Kailash and Lake Rakshastal

Thangka depicting Mount Kailash
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.

- Lake Rakshastal

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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Lake Manasarovar with Mount Kailash in the distance.

Lake Manasarovar

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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.

It is connected to nearby Lake Rakshastal by the natural Ganga Chhu channel.

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 source of the Sutlej is west of the catchment area of Lake Rakshastal in Tibet, as springs in an ephemeral stream.

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).