Pyramids, Baalbek, Machu Picchu - traces of high technologies for working with stone are visible everywhere. There are many stones - from small to giant - where even modern equipment cannot achieve the processing that was found on the stone. Not to mention moving some huge blocks. This is what primarily indicates the existence of an ancient high-tech civilization. Even without knowing anything else, one can say that there was definitely someone there. And, studying other materials (legends, religions, inscriptions, culture), we see that we can even determine who they were and what they looked like, where they lived, etc. If there is an ancient civilization - there is processed stone - the locals have legends.
This was and is the case in many historical places of the world: Egypt, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Chile, India - great historical places confirm this logic.
There are places where there are no legends - there are only processed stones. Based on the level of their processing, we can draw conclusions about the development of the civilization that made them.
But there is also a unique case - there is an ancient great civilization, there are legends, but there are no processed stones. This place is called Kailash. What makes Kailash unique?
is the only famous mountain in the world unconquered by man.
- According to legend, gods still live in the area of this mountain.
- this mountain has the sources of 4 great rivers of India and Iran.
- this mountain is the center of the huge Buddhist religion.
- the height of this mountain in meters = the diameter of the planet in kilometers = the distance from it to the North Pole in kilometers (within 5%).
- the mountain is at 31 degrees. With. latitudes like the Pyramids.
- There is still a gigantic psycho-energy near this mountain.
You can list many unique features of Kailash, but this is enough to conclude that the gods were or are there. There are modern legends and stories about them in monasteries that are nearby in hundreds. Then the question arises - where are the stones? If there is an ancient civilization, there must be stones. But no one saw either processed stones or giant blocks in the vicinity of Kailash.
What else is unique about the Kailash region? You can't fly over it by plane - it's high in the mountains. It cannot be walked around - the area is inaccessible. It cannot be viewed from above - there are no mountains higher than Kailash, and there is no access to it. All this led to the fact that maps and places of this area were drawn “from below”, “by eye”. The accuracy of the measurements was low, and there was no need to talk about a map of the entire region.
I will tell you an incident that happened to me in 2006. I “flew” to Mount Kailash - and didn’t find it! Those. there was a place, there was a mountain in the photo, everything was in place. But its height according to Google Map was 5830 meters! I was shocked! This is exactly the height of the mountains around Kailash. But the official height of Kailash is 6638 meters! Where did almost 800 meters of the mountain, its peak, go? Google map gave all the heights around Kailash correctly, from a kilometer to 10 km; I specifically checked the height of Everest, the height of neighboring mountains on a paper map. Everything matched, except for one Kailash. It was as if the top of Kailash was transparent to the radio beam, and it was reflected where it should be - from the surface of the mountain, which coincides with the surrounding mountains, and not from the visible peak!
I spent 6 hours studying this phenomenon, made a copy of the screen and then wrote a letter to a person who had been there more than once - Sergei Yuryevich Balalaev. This is the biggest expert on Kailash, he has already made 7 research expeditions to this mountain and this should have interested him.
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A day later, when he installed Google Map, we called, and over the phone I showed him this miracle. There was no mountain! But the miracles were just beginning. At the end of our 4-hour conversation, the mountain appeared!... Of the required height, the correct three-dimensional shape! I don’t understand how... It’s as if those who were on Kailash remained connected to it forever and information flowed there through them. And when it became known about such a “hole”, the information changed. Moreover, only Kailash changed - the satellite image did not change, the heights nearby remained the same up to a meter. Nothing has changed except the height of Kailash. And now the height was found in 10 seconds without difficulty! If this hadn't happened to me, I wouldn't have believed it. But it was. And then, when I met with Sergei Yuryevich personally, when he brought water from Kailash and stone samples from three of its slopes to Moscow for analysis, we discussed this. He gave me one stone from the southern slope of the mountain. This stone for me is still a symbol of mysteries and the unknown on the planet. Someone (or something) is there... Why hasn’t Google Map taken a single detailed picture of Kailash in 4 years, although at all other historical places up to 2 m have been lying for a long time. And 5 km from Kailash there are plenty of high-resolution pictures!
I would like to draw your attention to the non-standard height of Kailash relative to the mountain range:
This photo is especially striking and revealing, because... traces of processing the mountain are visible:
Kailash has two concave sides:
Photo of Kailash showing the five parts of Kailash. The parts are identified by the dividing lines visible on each face of the Kailash at the same level. This is very unusual for the mountains.
Between Mount Kailash through the valley of lakes to the neighboring comparable mountain is approximately 66 km. The distance is not very large, however, the rocks here are cut at a different angle. Rotate the excision vector about 70 degrees:
What a sharp and horizontally correct transition between the “pyramid” and an ordinary mountain. It looks like it's standing on a cut top (top right corner):
It is worth noting that Kailash is a separate formation that is not part of the Himalayas. Sort of like a “black sheep”.
On the left are traces of sawing red granite in Machu Picchu - on the right is an attempt to visually compare the trace:
Kailasanatha - a Hindu rock temple, is the central structure of the complex of cave temples in Ellora:
There is an interesting column on Elora Kailasa Temple. It seemed very similar to the Egyptian Djed:
The structure of Kailash, which is the largest megalith on Earth, is very interesting (the height of the visible part without scree is about 1000 m, the base of the Northern face and the distance between the Northern and Southern faces are approximately the same size). There are four clearly defined parts, separated by cracks on all sides of the mountain, and especially well defined on the southern and northern sides.
.The first, lower part - the visible part of the base, approximately up to the beginning of the vertical crack, has a layered structure. The border between these two zones is a crack bleached by snow. Moreover, this crack is also visible on Tijunga - a small snow-capped pyramidal mountain standing on a massive base of several huge blocks adjacent to the southwestern part of Kailash. The vertical crack ends precisely near this boundary.
.The second part is a flat, monolithic, concrete-like, almost vertical surface, the border of which runs along the massive base of Tijung.
.The third part is a stepped structure, clearly visible in the vertical crack.
The fourth, upper part also consists of stepped terraces, especially clearly visible on the northern edge. There is also a crack on the Northern Face, but not vertical, but more strongly beveled and shorter. The peak of Kailash is not pointed, but appears to have a flat area, usually covered with snow.
A careful study of the structure of Kailash, Nandu and some monuments leads to the idea that inside these rock formations (or at least the next layer) have a layered structure, and a special concrete-like rock is like an outer covering. This is especially clearly visible in the lower part of the base of the southern face of Kailash, as well as in higher individual places where the outer shell has collapsed over time.
The Bon religion existed in Tibet long before the birth of Buddha Gautama, and in some remote areas, its traditions are still passed on.
Bon originates from the times when nagas lived on our planet, and human life was in constant danger because of the spirits and other powerful natural forces that reigned over Tibet.
It is believed that the first Bon teacher, Tonpa Shenrab, came from Heaven to teach people to resist and control these forces. Initially, the Bon swastika is twisted in the opposite direction (counterclockwise), which symbolizes opposition to the forces of nature and the inflexibility of the will of the followers.
To control the forces of nature, Bon priests identify themselves with God. Trance-inducing rituals are used, during which a person receives a mystical experience that allows him to realize and subjugate the world around him, other people, and, first of all, himself. Since confrontation requires enormous energy, sacrifices and blood rituals are used. Many rituals, such as casting spells through a doll, hair or scraps of clothing, are very similar to shamanism or African Voodoo. Largely because of this, the fame of “black magic” developed around Bon. In fact, an adept can with equal success both inflict damage and heal people.
Bon showed great resistance to the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet, which ultimately resulted in the interpenetration of “white Bon” into Tibetan Buddhism and vice versa.
Followers of Bon, the ancient pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet, claim that Shambhala is actually Olmolungring, the source of their teachings, an invisible kingdom surrounded by snowy mountains to the northwest of Tibet. Their texts trace a line of succession of teachers and students back almost eighteen thousand years to their first great teacher Shenrab, who is said to have been born king of Olmolungring in 16017 BC. According to these texts, he left his kingdom to cross the burning desert and bring the Bon religion to Tibet. After teaching for a short time in the region of Mount Kailash, he returned to Olmolungring and was followed by a dynasty of kings who remained in their secret sanctuary, preserving the essence of the Bon teachings.
Some Tibetan yogis traveled to the homeland of Bon to obtain additional teachings to bring back to Tibet. One of them left instructions that Olmolungring lies to the west of Mount Kailash, at a distance twice as great as between this mountain and Shigatse, a large city in central Tibet.
By the way, by checking the distance from Kailash to Shigatse in Google Map and doubling it towards the west, we get the location of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Reminiscent of guidebooks to Shambhala, the written guide describes a semi-magical journey to Uttarakura. The path leads to Mount Kailash, where the God of Wealth lives, and then to another mountain inhabited by magicians. After passing the summit with women who have horse heads, the traveler passes through Khotan and ends up in Uttarakura. One of the main characters of the Mahabharata, Prince Arjuna, travels through the Himalayas to Lake Manasarovar at the foot of Kailash, crosses the mountainous region beyond - apparently the Tibetan Plateau - and reaches the borders of the northern paradise. Like the Tibetan lamas who consider Shambhala invisible, some sources claim that Uttarakura can neither be reached by mere mortals nor seen with human eyes.
In some tantric teachings, Mount Kailash, for example, symbolizes the spine or central psychic channel of the body, as well as the seat of the patron deity Chakrasamvara. Kalachakra develops this system of correspondences to the fullest extent, and even includes time in it, making deities and internal processes a reflection of external events, such as the waxing and waning of the moon.
The owners of knowledge live near the sacred mountain Kailasa. To those who see them with unusual vision, these sages are seen as patron deities with their diamond consorts. There, in the area of the golden caves, lives the elder Angaja, one of the sixteen disciples of the Buddha, surrounded by a thousand saints. If you listen carefully to the sound of bells and cymbals, you will hear the music of their enlightened teachings.
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Kailash.
Asia's most sacred mountain, Kailash (6174 m), rises alone above the high plateau of Western Tibet. Like a biblical paradise, four rivers flow from the Kailash region: Indus, Sutlej, Tsangpo (or Brahmaputra) and Karnali. The Holy Ganges also originates nearby. South of the Punjab, the Indus and Sutlej merge, and the resulting powerful Indus rushes towards the Arabian Sea. All four rivers are considered sacred by Tibetans, and their sources near Kailash are even more sacred.
Manasarovar is the most famous and revered lake in Asia. It is famous for the fact that its guardian is the goddess Dorjey Pagmo (among the Tibetans). She is Parvati (for Indians). From here you can see the top of the sacred Mount Kailash.
Lake Manasarovar in Hinduism, as in Buddhism, is also sacred, its waters flow in the shadow of the great Kailash, it is a lake born in the mind of God. It was created to show the power and greatness of the manas (mind) of God Brahma. In Tibetan the name of the lake is “Mapam Tsho”, “Invincible Lake”. The Indian poet Kalidasa wrote in the 3rd century AD: “When the earth of Manasarovar touches the body, when someone bathes in it, he will go to the paradise of Brahma. Whoever drinks its waters will go to the paradise of Shiva and will be freed from the consequences of his 100 sins lives. Even the beast that bears the name of Manasarovar will go to the paradise of Brahma. Its waters are pearls."
According to legends, Mount Kailash is the home of the god Shiva (or Demchog among the Tibetans), and Lake Manasarovar is the habitat of Shiva’s wife, goddess Parvati (Dorjey Pagmo). Together these two great deities symbolize wisdom and compassion. Thanks to them, Kailash and Manasarovar are considered an ideal married couple.
Pilgrims moving towards enlightenment should definitely visit these holy places. Lake Rakshas, located next to Lake Manasarovar, is sometimes called the dead lake or lake of demons. Pilgrims try to avoid it. Rakshasas are flesh-eating demons who live in the lake according to Hindu mythology. According to legend, the water of Lake Rakshas was poisonous until the golden fish made a passage from Manasarovar. Through the canal, the living water of Lake Manasarovar enters the Rakshas, reviving it.
I am convinced that the Ganga Chu interlake canal is almost dry. Lake Rakshasa is being killed again. There are hot springs near the monastery. Local Tibetans have built a cabin where you can enter and take a bath without being seen from the outside. From the lake there is a beautiful view of the sacred mountain Gurnanda (Gurlu Mandhata, 7683m).
Lost City.
Followers of the pre-Buddhist Bon religion believe that the Nine-Story Swastika Mountain Yungdrung Gutseg (Kailas) is the soul of Bon and the heart of the ancient country of Shang Shung. The mountain is the center of life force and the main principle of the Nine Paths of Bon. Here the founder of the religion, Tonpa Shenrab, descended from heaven to earth.
The Bon tradition says: “At the foot of Mount Yungdrung, four rivers originate, flowing in four directions. The mountain is surrounded by temples, cities and parks. To the south is the Barpo Sogye Palace, where Tonpa Shenrab was born, to the west and north are the palaces in which they lived his wives and children. In the east stands a temple called Shampo Lhatse. All the palaces, temples, rivers, gardens and parks with the Yungdrung peak in the center form the interior of the country of Olmo Lungring. It is surrounded by 12 cities, four of which are located exactly on the four cardinal points Beyond these cities begins the outer world, surrounded in turn by the ocean, and beyond it by a chain of inaccessible snowy peaks.The only access to the magical Olmo Lungring is the "path of the arrow": before his visit to Tibet, Tonpa Shenrab shot an arrow through the outer mountains and made passage
One day, Tonpa Shenrab, an authoritative teacher of the Bon doctrine, was chasing a demon who had stolen his horses. In pursuit, the teacher arrived in Tibet. On his only visit here, Tonpa Shenrab transmitted only some Bon rituals to the people, seeing that the country was not yet ready to receive more complete teachings. Subsequently, six disciples of Mucho Demdrug, Shenrab's successor, descended to Tibet and brought the first texts of Bon to the people."
The country of Zhangzhung actually existed in Western Tibet. Many researchers tied the magical land of Olmo Lungring to Kailash and its four rivers, in the land to the east of Mount Swastika they saw China, in the south - India, in the west - the ancient country of Uddian (now northern Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Hindu Kush massif), in the north - the country of Khotan (compare the current oasis city of Khotan in the Taklamakan Desert). Others, however, think that the tale of the land of Olmo Lungring and Mount Yungdrung indicates a transcendental, supernatural origin of the Bon tradition. Kailash is a reflection of this heavenly (or hidden) earth.
In the 11th century, Buddhists established themselves in Kailash: the Kagyu school teacher and mystic poet Milarepa defeated his Bon rival Naro Bonchung in a long series of competitions in the magical arts. Traces of these magical battles are still visible along the route around Kailash. Milarepa spent several years meditating in caves on the slopes of the sacred mountain and thus “introduced” her to Buddhism. In the 12th century, the presence of the Kagyu school in the area rapidly grew: monasteries and temples were built, and many pilgrims flocked to pay tribute to the most sacred of Tibet's peaks. For Buddhists, Kailash, like two other classical pilgrimage sites in Tibet - Tsari and Lapchi, is the site of the terrifying manifestation of Buddha Shakyamuni - Demchog. Buddhists also proclaimed Kailash as Swastika Mountain: the swastika in Buddhism is a symbol of spiritual power, and the peak actually resembles a swastika. The round cone of Kailash is almost symmetrical; on all its walls, horizontal and vertical stripes-ridges that make up the swastika pattern are clearly visible. Perhaps this is the original birthplace of this sun sign.
For Hindus, Kailash is the seat of the great Shiva the Destroyer. According to the Vishnu Puran tradition, the peak is a representation or image of Mount Sumeru, the cosmic mountain at the center of the universe.
It is believed that one who bypasses Kailash receives remission of sins. Anyone who walks around the mountain 13 times receives absolution for all subsequent lives. And those who go around Kailash 108 times get to Nirvana, the highest kingdom of Brahma.
The territory of Shambhala is Kailash.
The circumambulation of Kailash is accompanied by many different rituals and is very rich in real and mythological concepts. I had some ideas about Kailash from Ernst Muldashev’s book “In Search of the City of the Gods.” In it, Muldashev cites such concepts as a mirror of time, a laser beam that protects the gates to Shambhala so that no one gets there; doors to Shambhala and many others. According to Muldashev, the entire Kailash complex is an artificial structure made by previous civilizations - the Atlanteans or Lemurians. They themselves went inside Kailash, which is hollow inside, and to this day sit there in a state of samadhi. As soon as trouble happens on earth and civilization begins to die out, according to Muldashev’s version, the Atlanteans will come out and save everyone. As a researcher, it was interesting for me to draw my conclusion on this matter.
From Darchen the wide kora trail heads northwest, skirting the ridge of Kailash. The trail is clearly marked with pyramids and cairns. The southern face of Kailash - the Sapphire Side - is revealed to the traveler at several vantage points. 6 km after leaving Darchen, pilgrims arrive at the first of four places of prostration - Chaktsal Ganga, from here the entire Sapphire side of the mountain is clearly visible.
Sapphire side:
The first three prostrations are made towards Kailash, the second three - towards Manasarovar, the third - towards Tirthapuri, a sacred place on the Sutlej River and this is not accidental, since it is there that one of the important places of practice of guru Padmasambhava is located, the last - towards Darchena. Pilgrims then display lung-ta prayer flags and burn incense to enlist the support of the mountain's protective spirits for the upcoming journey.
After prostrations, rounding the edge of Kailash, pilgrims enter the valley of the Lha Chu River. The Lha Chu Valley is one of the most impressive places in the crust: a canyon of fantastic bizarre red rocks interspersed with orange, pink and blue layers, giant steps of rubble screes, high rocky peaks. The descent down the Lha Chu River continues in a northerly direction. Kailash rises on the right hand, the path leads to Tarboche.
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Northeast side:
Tarboche is also famous for the great sacred cemetery of Drach Ngagye Durtrø (cemetery of the 84 mahasiddhas). This place was consecrated by great ascetics and saints - Mahasiddhas, some of them were cremated here. Most pilgrims want to find their final refuge here. Over the many centuries during which Tibetan “sky funerals” were held here (the dead are left to lie just like that, in the open air, to be devoured by birds and animals), a specific smell of death and decomposition developed in the cemetery. Here you can meet real practitioners of the Chod tradition, who, contemplating the impermanence of human life, cut off not only all attachments, but also the last attachment - to the concept of one’s own “I”, as well as to the physical body. Usually practitioners live in a small tent, where they sit day and night, and also by the presence of a special ritual drum “Dammara”, made from two joined together skulls of a person who died a non-violent death, preferably killed by lightning, and a pipe making sharp sounds, made from the femur of a virgin, who also died naturally.
After Tarboche, pilgrims go to a large white stupa with prayer walls. This is the Kangnyi Chorten. It is believed that passing through the arch in the chorten frees the traveler from the consequences of all sins.
After an hour's walk from Tarboche, the bridge over Lha Chu appears. It leads to Chuku Monastery. The valley in this area is a canyon of sheer green and brown rocks. In the vicinity of the monastery there are many sacred caves where Mahasiddhas meditated. The great Milarepa resided in one of them.
In the west rise the three peaks of Tselha Namsum - the Three Goddesses of Longevity (Drolma, Tsepame, Namgyalma). Between the first two hangs a waterfall known as the Tail of the Horse of King Geser.
Soon a stone with a self-formed image of a horse appears to the right of the path. According to Milarepa, whoever sits astride this wonderful stone will find happiness and inner peace. He also left instructions according to which only those who have already completed 12 circles around Kailash and are now on the 13th circle can sit on the stone.
An hour and a half after the bridge, a black rock appears, decorated with prayer flags. This is Tamdrin Dronkhang, a miraculously carved image of Tamdrin, a horse-headed deity representing the fearsome aspect of Chenretsig. The rock is coated with a thick layer of oil, and pilgrims attach coins and paper money to it. They collect oily mud from the rock and anoint their forehead and head with it.
Beyond the magic rock, the path leads to the confluence of two rivers and valleys: the Chamo Lungchen Chu, flowing from the northwest, and the Dronglung Chu, flowing from the north. Here their confluence forms the Lha Chu River, the western kora valley. The rocky walls of the valleys are made of smooth, vertical granite. If you cross the Kangjam Chu River, which flows directly from Kailash to the north, and follow its western bank to the south, you can see the northern side of Kailash.
We walk slowly with guide Tashi, who is well versed in Kora's many rituals. It's hard to walk - height. In the evening we arrive at the highest mountain monastery in the world, Drira Phuk (5100m), called the “northern monastery of Kailash”. The Drukpa Kagyu monastery was built around a cave where guru Gotshangpa meditated in the 13th century. He was the first to designate Kailash as a sacred mountain and performed the first Kora around it.
The monastery faces the Northern face of Kailash. On both sides of the steep wall of Kailash there are three peaks: Chana Dorje (Vajrapani), Jampelyang (Manjusri) and Chenretsig (Avalokiteshvara).
The greatest impression on me was the communication with the monks and lama who live in the Drira Phuk monastery at an altitude of 5100. We had a long conversation with Dorjey Lama.
Lama carefully looked through Professor Muldashev’s book “In Search of the City of the Gods,” studied photographs, listened to my suggestions, and answered questions:
Traveler: - Is this a mirror of time?
Lama: - The Mirror of Time is here, but it is in a different place.
Traveler: - Is it true that this is the head of Buddha in the rock?
Lama: - Yes, this is the head of Buddha.
Traveler: - Is it true that this is the city of the Gods?
Lama: - Yes, this is the city of the Gods.
Traveler: - Is it true that these are the doors to Shambhala?
Lama: We don’t know anything about this.
Traveler: Is it true that this is an artificial structure?
Lama: - You see that these are natural mountains.
Traveler: - But Professor Muldashev believes that this is an artificial city.
Lama: - Well... let him have this point of view.
I was delighted by the delicacy, liberality and tact of the lamas. This is wisdom, this is the benevolence of religion.
I again turn to the Lama with the question: “How can real things be combined with mysticism, in my understanding, with mythology? The poet Milarepa, for example, is a real figure from the 11th century. He actually spent several years without food or drink, meditating on the slopes of the holy mountain and thus “introducing” it to Buddhism. According to legend, in a long series of contests in the magical arts, Milarepa defeated his Bonn rival Naro Bonchug, and traces of these battles are still visible along the route around Kailash. Along with the real-life guru Milarepa and the legends surrounding his life, there is a mythical figure with whom the story of Kailash is also inextricably linked - the goddess Parvati. However, both real and mythical information about guru Milarepa and goddess Parvati are presented and used in exactly the same way.”
The lama answered my question very simply:
- The history of any country or religion is formed from an epic, and an epic is a combination of real things and myths. And that's okay. The main task of the epic is to form a certain attitude of people towards something. In this case we are talking about Buddhism.
The Lama and I agree that Buddhism has a long, glorious history. This is no longer even a religion, but a philosophy, and from my observations, not even a philosophy, but a way of life, which is based on kindness and benevolence. And this morality is supported by both real facts and invented ones, and they are so closely intertwined that you can no longer figure out where the fiction is. For believers, all mystical components are also real things. I found this idea suggested by the Lama to be delightful.
From the Drira Phuk Monastery, those who wish can go to the northern foot of Kailash. It seems very close. A similar trail goes along the Kangjam Chu River, which is called “Urina Kailasa”. You can reach the northern wall in 1.5 hours.
The trail goes to the Kangjama spring - a huge dome-shaped glacier, along the trail, and then along the glacier you can reach the northern wall of Kailash. In the ground you can see depressions with clay. This is Kusha, the Flesh of Kailash. It is believed to have sacred properties and can be eaten.
We start from the monastery. Steep, exhausting climb to the Drolma La pass. Elevation gain - 500 meters, distance to the pass (7 km). The path passes by pyramids of stones, offerings to the goddess Drolma. Soon Shama Ri peak appears in the south east of Kailash. The full name of this peak is Shama Ledri Dhongpo (Eighteen Circles of Hell: Eight Cold, Eight Hot, Two Purgatory). With their entire appearance, the northern rugged rocks, moraines and glaciers of the peak remind of the reality of the existence of hell and are an important milestone on the path of spiritual pilgrimage around the sacred mountain.
I continue to get acquainted with various rituals.
We stop at two stones with the mantra “Om” in red. There is a “mirror of time” on the rock on the right. Tashi says that in the mirror of time a person sees the reflection of his soul or karma. If you see a black rock, then your karma is bad, if it is dark blue, then you are good. No matter how much I looked, the pillar remained black and gray.
Mirrors of time:
We approach the stone purgatory. A pile of stones in which there is a narrow winding passage. Tashi suggests that I check my karma again. A person who is able to crawl through a 4-meter gap has good karma. Failure to do so means bad karma.
I try and...get stuck. I have a lot of clothes on. Tashi pulled me back by my feet. I undress as much as possible and... luck! Good karma!
The next test is a large stone with a small hole. From five meters with your eyes closed, you need to get into this hole with your index finger - if you get in, you are a good son of your parents, if you don’t get in, you are a bad son. Of course, I didn't get it.
We pass by the Sivatshal Durtreux cemetery. Here, pilgrims undergo a ritual death, are taken to the terrible Dorje Jigje, the King of Death, and are then reborn at the top of the Drolma Pass. Clothes, bones, hair, shoes are scattered in the cemetery. Pilgrims leave something here, such as an offering of their blood. Tashi states that some pilgrims meditate in the cemetery, entering the bardo state on their post-mortem journey. Some people stay overnight.
The trail leads to the edge of the glacier, and the mountain pass begins. At one point the trail is crossed by the stream Shenpe Dhiklak Chu (Hand of the Sinful Butcher). People who killed animals in the slaughterhouse come here to wash their hands and wash away bad karma.
The section of the path from the Sivatshal cemetery to the pass is represented as the cleansing of sins, checking the state of karma at the moment, purification through ritual death, staying in hell and emerging from there for a new birth. Crossing the Drolma La pass (5636 m) means the transition from this life to a new one. The pilgrim is reborn here and all his sins are forgiven thanks to the compassion of Tara (Drolma), the Goddess of Mercy.
It becomes very difficult to walk. The altitude is already almost 5600m. The moment I reach the pass I fall into a strange state. It seems as if the soul is flying over the planet. I almost lose control of my emotions. I am constrained by the presence of Tasha's guide.
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We are at the top of the pass. As Tashi taught me, I stand near the Buddha stone, throw my hands up and shout: “Laso!”, “Kiki Soso La Gyalo!”, “Kiki Soso Lasolo!”. This is thanksgiving to the goddess Drolma. I measure the height: 5656m. Each stone of the pass represents the Three Jewels (Buddha, dharma or teaching, sangha or community). Each stone is imbued with the three qualities of Buddha (mind, body, speech). In the center of the pass stands a giant cubic stone called Phawang Mebar. At its top, a cairn supports a tall flagpole tied with ropes and prayer flags. Phawang Mebar is smeared with oil and littered with horns, animal skulls, and numerous objects. The surface of the stone is dotted with yellow and red mantras, and the miraculous inscription “Om” is visible.
This is the culmination of the cortex. At the foot of Phawang Mebar, pilgrims celebrate the end of the kora. You need to leave something here: some clothes, a cup, shoes. You can take something from the pass in return - everything that has been here will have magical and protective properties. Pilgrims perform a complex set of rituals at the pass: reciting mantras, walking around the pass, offering incense, chang beer, tea, prostrating, etc.
While at the pass, the pilgrim vigilantly watches for the signs that here tell him about his fate. An important sign is the appearance of black ravens: if a raven lands smoothly on the ground, emitting a soft cry, this means the successful completion of the pilgrimage. If a bird sits abruptly and makes harsh sounds, this bodes ill for the future journey, and long rituals must be performed to dispel bad influences.
We descend from the pass to the southeast. The descent is steep and rocky. After 3 km and a drop of 600 meters in altitude, the trail descends into the grassy meadows of the Lham Chu valley. On the right you can see the sacred lake Yokmo Tso (Lake of Compassion). This is the highest lake (5608m) on Earth. Indian pilgrims perform a ritual immersion in the lake, Tibetan pilgrims walk around the lake, throw blessed balls into the water, read mantras, and splash water on their foreheads. Tibetans consider immersion to be a desecration of sacred water.
Near the eastern foot of the Drolma La pass, at a large rock near a stone hut, there is a place where Milarepa and Naro Bonchung met, circumambulating Kailash in opposite directions (Milarepa was a Buddhist and made the pilgrimage clockwise, Naro Bonchung was a Bon master and circumambulated the mountain counterclockwise). clockwise.Here, at the back of the rock, is Milarepa's meditation cave with miraculous images of the swastika, the syllable "Om" and Milarepa's fingerprints.
Soon the trail reaches the third prostrate site, the Eastern Chaktsal Ganga, from here the view of the Eastern Face of Kailash opens. On the right is the path leading from the Secret Path of the Dakini, from the Khandro Sanglam La pass.
Tashi shows me a stone with the footprint of Buddha.
We approach the Zutrul Phuk monastery (Cave of Miracles, 4863 m). In the vicinity of the monastery there are a large number of meditation caves, prayer stones and walls, rocks with mantras, and ruined chortens. Zutrul Phuk was built around a cave, which was the site of the famous duel between Milarepa and the master Bon Naro Bonchung for power over Kailash.
The first part of the fight consisted of a competition to build a hut out of stone. Milarepa cut rocks like butter with his palm, suspended the ceiling in the air and adjusted the walls while it hung. Naro Bonchung could not keep up with him. The next competition was to see who could fly to the top of Kailash the fastest. Naro Bonchung, before dawn, sat on his tambourine and took off. Milarepa was relaxing at the foot of the mountain, waiting for the sun to rise. As soon as the first ray of sun broke out from the horizon, Milarepa jumped on it and in an instant found himself on the top of Kailash. As a result, Naro Bonchung admitted defeat, Bon relinquished his control over Kailash and in return received the lower Mount Ponri in the east. But despite this, Kailash continues to be called Bon Swastika Mountain.
Among the shrines of the monastery are Milarepa's trident, Mile Changkha, and a statue of the mystic poet. The statue is made of precious metal, according to tradition, by the hands of Milarepa himself shortly before his passing. The round projection in the wall of the cave of the monastery is called Ngodrub Terbur (Precious Gift), Milarepa said that it has the power to bless and protect the believer.
Next, the trail goes in a southwestern direction along the Lham Chu River, which is called Zhong Chu here. The tributary of Gedhun Lha Chu is perceived by pilgrims as the urine of Kailash. We cross numerous streams flowing from the Sangye Tongku Shugtri peak. On the left in the Trangser Trangmar canyon (Golden and Red Rocks), a river runs. I rate the river as floatable.
In the gorge there is a stone on which the imprint of the horseshoe of King Geser’s horse remains; here the grandiose battle of Geser with the forces of evil took place. The red blood of the defeated demons mixed with the yellow earth and gave the appearance and name to this gorge.
The path is pitted with small holes. These were pilgrims looking for sacred stones. According to legends, these stones prevent heart strokes, epilepsy and other diseases; pieces of them are put into drinks as an antidote in case the drink is poisoned (this often happened quite recently in Tibet).
At the southern end of the Trangser Trangmar gorge there is the fourth and final place of prostration, the Chaktsal Gang. Tashi kneels and prays.
After visiting Kailash, I am increasingly inclined to not deny what is incomprehensible today. I don’t even deny Muldashev’s fantastic conclusions, but simply perceive them as information. I was able to feel for myself: there is some kind of powerful energy-information field on Kailash. Perhaps it was created by the fields of thousands of pilgrims who visited the mountain, plus the care and attention of the monks who look after this complex, plus history, plus the concentration of energies on the peaks of the mountains. But there is definitely a certain energy here.
I tried to fulfill all the rituals that religion put in my way. I even climbed and sat in the caves for meditation. They are very small, shorter than human height, so it is impossible to stand in them. Local monks and lamas are absolutely sure that you can sit in these caves not only for several months, but also for several years in a state of samadhi, without drinking or eating anything. Whether I believe it or not, I don't know. Now I simply do not deny this fact.
Mount Kailash is a mysterious and incomprehensible secret of Tibet, a place that attracts thousands of religious pilgrims and tourists. The highest in its region, surrounded by the sacred lakes Manasarovar and Rakshas (living and dead water), the peak, unconquered by any climber, is worth seeing with your own eyes at least once in your life.
Where is Mount Kailash?
The exact coordinates are 31.066667, 81.3125, Kailash is located in the south of the Tibetan Plateau and separates the basins of the four main rivers of Asia, water from its glaciers flows into Lake Langa Tso. High-resolution photos from a satellite or airplane resemble an eight-petaled flower of regular shape; on the map it does not differ from the neighboring ridges, but significantly exceeds them in height.
The answer to the question: what is the height of the mountain is disputed, the range called by scientists is from 6638 to 6890 m. On the southern slope of the mountain there are two deep perpendicular cracks, their shadows form the outline of a swastika at sunset. 
Mount Kailash is mentioned in all ancient myths and religious texts of Asia, it is recognized as sacred among four religions:
- Hindus believe that at its peak is the favorite abode of Shiva; in the Vishnu Purana it is indicated as the city of the gods and the cosmic center of the Universe.
- In Buddhism, it is the seat of the Buddha, the heart of the world and the place of power.
- Jains worship the mountain as the place where Mahavira, their first prophet and greatest saint, gained true insight and interrupted samsara.
- The Bon people call the mountain a place of concentration of vitality, the center of an ancient country and the soul of their traditions. Unlike believers of the first three religions, who make a kora (purifying pilgrimage) after sun exposure, Bon followers go towards the sun.
Parascientific concepts about Kailash
The mystery of Kailas worries not only scientists, but also lovers of mysticism and transcendental knowledge, historians searching for traces of ancient civilizations. The ideas put forward are very bold and bright, for example:
- The mountain and its surroundings are called a system of ancient pyramids destroyed over time. Supporters of this version note a clear step pattern (9 ledges in total) and the correct location of the faces of the mountain, almost exactly coinciding with the cardinal points, like the complexes in Egypt and Mexico.
- E. Muldashev's theory about the stone mirrors of Kailash, the gates to another world and the artifacts of ancient humanity hidden inside the mountain. According to him, this is an artificially constructed, hollow inside object with an original height of 6666 m, the concave sides of which bend time and hide the passage to a parallel reality.
- Legends about the sarcophagus hiding the gene pool of Christ, Buddha, Confucius, Zarathustra, Krishna and other teachers of antiquity.
Stories of climbing Kailash
It is pointless to ask the question “who conquered Kailash”; due to religious reasons, the indigenous people did not attempt to conquer the peak; all officially registered expeditions with this focus belong to foreign climbers. Like other pyramid-shaped ice-covered mountains, Kailash is difficult to climb, but the main problem is the protest of believers.
Having difficulty obtaining permission from the authorities in 2000 and 2002, the Spanish groups did not go further than the camp set up at the foot of the camp; in 2004, Russian enthusiasts tried to make the climb without high-altitude equipment, but returned due to unfavorable weather. Currently, such ascents are prohibited at the official level, including UNN. 
Trekking around Kailash
Many companies offer the service of delivery to the starting point of the bark - Darchen and accompanying a guide. The pilgrimage takes up to 3 days, crossing the most difficult section (Dolma Pass) – up to 5 hours. During this time, the pilgrim walks 53 km; after completing 13 circles, passage to the inner ring of the kora is allowed.
Those wishing to visit this place should remember not only good physical fitness, but also the need for a permit - a kind of group visa to visit Tibet; registration takes 2-3 weeks. The policy pursued by China has led to the fact that it is almost impossible to get to Mount Kailash on your own; individual visas are not issued. But there is also a plus: the more people in the group, the cheaper the tour and travel will cost.
On our long journey, we have finally approached the “great and terrible” Kailash so much that we will see the long-awaited th We only have a few hours left of mysticism and miracles. It was decided to ride the last 70-kilometer stretch of the route from the village of Montser to the village of Darchen at the foot of the sacred mountain on bicycles.
Taklamakan - Tibet plus Kailash, part 26
Expedition trip report 2010
through the Taklamakan Desert, the Kun-Lun Range and the Tibetan Plateau to Mount Kailash
in diary entries, photographs and “oil paintings”
April 28. Twenty-fourth day of the route
The uncomfortable, dusty and noisy bus ride on Tibetan roads over the previous two or three days shook out of us... no, not “our whole soul,” but the desire to switch back to bicycles. And, in my opinion, the bicycles themselves also liked lying packed on the roof of the bus. Therefore, the first few kilometers in the morning, when I had to pedal again, were hard. Something in my bike was rubbing, catching, not shifting and slowing down. In short, the “iron horse” kicked, refused to ride and lagged behind everyone.
But other options had already been ruled out, so everyone had to come to terms with it. About forty minutes of driving on a dirt road, and we rolled out onto the highway.
There is mostly no asphalt on the roads of Tibet, but if there is any, it is good. The phrase “poorly paved road” is not typical for China. They build here conscientiously. Or perhaps out of fear.
However, the Chinese built the first ten kilometers from the village of Montser to the east, towards Kailash, “to fuck off.” The asphalt looked fresh, but the edges of the pavement were already starting to break off, and in some places the curbs had half slid into the ditch. But every 100-200 meters, holes were drilled in the asphalt - this was obviously a core sample taken to check the quality of the road surface and the reasons for its destruction. We have never seen anything like this in Russia. Yes, and what exactly should we check? And why drill? And so in every domestic pothole the entire road “sandwich” is visible to its full thickness: five centimeters of gravel and a centimeter of bitumen.
I think that the investigation into the case of the road builders has already been completed, and the Chinese foreman has been shot. However, maybe he’s just sitting in prison, because the asphalt has improved further.
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The landscapes along which the route is laid are in some ways very similar to those in Transbaikal: wide steppe valleys and low mountains with gentle slopes. The soil is very dry, yellow, there is no vegetation. Most likely, the grass will grow later, when the rainy season begins, and then the desert will turn into pasture. In any case, extended areas of the steppe are surrounded by wire; apparently, wild antelope, of which there are a lot here, compete with livestock.
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4. Wild antelope 
Tibetan herders are known to lead a nomadic lifestyle. When pastures become scarce, families load all their goods onto the backs of yaks and move to a new place. We almost caught a caravan of nomads on the road: they had just crossed the highway, passed through the gate in the wire fence and were quickly moving away towards the mountains. Bad luck…
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We have… “exactly 6666 m” left to reach the foot of Kailash
As we moved east, a large ridge began to grow from behind the relatively flat mountains. And then the road paralleled this mountain range with snow-capped peaks, many of which were shaped like pyramids.
The ridge is called Kailash, and its central peak bears the same name - a great mountain in every sense, the final goal of our expedition.
6. Pyramid Kailash is not yet visible. But other mountains also look like pyramids. 
The road is getting closer and closer to the ridge, but the mountains in it are difficult to distinguish, because they are covered with low dark clouds, from which rain streams descend to the ground in a thick gray fringe. And above the valley there are clouds hanging high in the sky and the weather is beautiful.
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But then the clouds hiding the ridge lighten, spread out, through them, at first, it is ghostly, and then Kailash is clearly visible.
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We have seen this mountain many times in photographs; it is impossible not to recognize it.
11. Mount Kailash, view from the south. 
It’s time to talk a little about this famous mountain, which millions of people are interested in and revere as the greatest earthly shrine.
Like Mecca for Muslims, Kailash is the spiritual center of several religions. This mountain is worshiped by Hindus, Buddhists, Bon religions and Jains. And it is interesting to simply curious people around the world.
Tibetans believe that Buddha Shakyamuni lives on the top of Kailash, Hindus are sure that the god Shiva lives there (this is his summer residence, and for the winter he moves to the Hindu temple of Pashaputinah in Nepal), that the mountain is not just holy, it is a source of beneficial power, capable of positively influencing the current fate of the believer and the history of his subsequent rebirths. To purify and improve your karma, you need to circumambulate (kora) around Kailash. Every Buddhist therefore strives to walk around the sacred mountain at least once in his life. But it’s better to do this many times, ideally 108 times. Then you can confidently count on a “successful, high-quality” reincarnation.
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"One of us is an idiot..."
The sacred mountain, “like a magnet,” attracts not only religious pilgrims, curious tourists, but also various rogues. The swindlers organize recreational tourist trips to Tibet, to Kailash, walking along the same paths that pilgrims walk, but they call their trips “scientific expeditions.” After performing kora, true Buddhists strengthen their faith and spirit, while our false scientists have new ideas in their heads, they make “sensational discoveries,” and tons, kilometers and terabytes of lies and stupidity appear in the form of books, articles, interviews, videos about "secrets and mysteries of Kailash."
What Buddhists, Hindus and others like them believe in, I don’t call stupid. This is their religious teaching, which has evolved over centuries, fairy tales, legends for believers, enshrined in ancient scriptures. This is the spiritual culture of entire nations. Tibet, Nepal, India...
But what the new “researchers” invent and create is pure nonsense.
Even those who know about Mount Kailash only by hearsay are probably aware that it resembles a pyramid, and that some... how to put it mildly... modern dreamers (calling themselves nothing less than scientists and researchers) such as ophthalmologist Dr. Ernst Muldashev claim, that this pyramid is man-made. Why is there only Kailash! There are about a hundred pyramid mountains, and all of them were created by ancient sculptors! “This is the largest megalithic complex on Earth, built by who knows what civilization.”, - announced Professor Muldashev.
Everything was built, of course, by hand (“Tibetans did not know other technologies”).
The height of these “artificial pyramids” is one to one and a half kilometers. Well, good job guys!
Dr. Muldashev doesn’t explain anything else (why!? People already believe him, journalists broadcast his every word on air and in print). But we can figure it out ourselves: many centuries ago, the Kailash region was obviously a plain. The builders of the “mega-complex” pulled out (by hand) thousand-ton blocks from the ground - they turned out to be gorges, and put them in heaps - they turned out to be pyramid mountains. Otherwise, where could they get building materials? You can’t drag it from the neighboring mountain range! However, why not!? They could have dragged the boulders a thousand kilometers away. The mountains already existed before, but so-so... And fanatical enthusiasts increased each by a kilometer, and Kailash by two, giving it the shape of a pyramid! And what! It's very simple using levitation! Just as easily as another “scientist”, “Kailas specialist” talks about it from the screen. Well, and only later, when all the workers went to rest, Shiva and Buddha settled on the mountain.
13. According to E. Muldashev: “The largest megalithic complex on Earth” 
Muldashev, of course, also found Shambhala and, of course, on Kailash. “The mountain is hollow inside” - this is what the ophthalmologist not only saw, but also “immediately felt.” A door leads inside Kailash: “I saw her. This is a recess in the mountain, approximately 150x200 meters, covered with stone. You must say an ancient spell and the door to Shambhala will open on its own.”, - says Muldashev calmly. For so many centuries humanity has been searching for Shambhala! Now the issue is resolved! Only now, damn it, “the spell is lost”!
By the way, against the backdrop of other schizophrenic mutterings expounded about Kailash by all sorts of esoteric mystics, occult ophthalmologists and outright charlatans, the thesis about its “man-made” does not even seem like the biggest nonsense.
Among the Russian-language nonsense writers, in addition to the mentioned Ernst Muldashev, I would name two more “fresh” authors: A. Redko and S. Balalaev. One of them is a “physicist”, the other is a guru of esotericism.”
If Muldashev began writing rubbish about Kailash before 2000, then Redko and his colleague began to “be weird” since 2004, but were very successful in it. In addition to this trio, some “dowsing specialists”, parapsychologists, members of the “Society of Atlantis Researchers”, fake Russian pilots who flew over Kailash, fake climbers, fake professors came to light…. A collection of these figures, with the active support of AiF, Ren TV and other yellow media, over the course of 10-12 years, have churned out so much nonsense to fool gullible citizens that I am unable to briefly describe all the nonsense (there are entire documentaries, books of three hundred pages ...).
The isolated sober voices of real scientists are practically inaudible; they are drowning in the ocean of nonsense and ignorance that has overwhelmed all the media. And it is impossible to refute crazy statements, due to the complete lack of any meaning in them. It’s not for nothing that it is said: “One fool can ask so many questions that a hundred wise men will not answer.”
In order not to be unfounded, I will analyze a couple of examples of scientific stupidity.
False scientists - authors of nonsense - charlatans (or sincerely mistaken people?), going to Kailash for “new discoveries”, call their trips scientific expeditions, but at the same time do not know and do not understand basic things, for example, such as methods and techniques for determining geographical heights They probably continue to think that the geodesist George Everest measured the height of Chomolungma in 1841 with a rope when he climbed to the top.
“No one knows the true height of this mysterious mountain. Measurements carried out in various ways show that it fluctuates up and down by several tens of meters every year, as can be seen from maps and reference books. Kailash seems to “breathe” around the average height of 6666m!”- write A. Redko and S. Balalaev (“Tibet-Kailas. Mysticism and Reality” (2009).
The authors who wrote this absurdity have no idea what they are talking about. A movement of the earth's crust, even with an amplitude of only one meter, is, at a minimum, the result of a tremendous earthquake of 10-12 magnitude.
In fact, even Wikipedia wrote a long time ago that the height of Kailash is 6714m. But our expeditioners really like four sixes. Read on:
“It is believed that three sixes are the “number of the beast,” but the biblical Apocalypse says that this is also the number of man. And in esoteric teachings, three sixes are an expression of the Highest creative principle of the Cosmos and symbolize the power of the Divine Mind. Four sixes are the sign of the Absolute.”
The magic of numbers also fascinates Professor Muldashev. In the intonation of the Messiah, the ophthalmologist broadcasts from the TV screen:
“From Mount Kailash to the Stonehenge monument in England - 6666 km. From Mount Kailash to the North Pole - 6666 km. From Mount Kailash to the South Pole twice, 6666 km. On the opposite side of Mount Kailash is Easter Island, where there are idols that no one understands. Next - the most curious thing: the height of Mount Kailash is 6666 m - four sixes!
All this, of course, is a lie and fraud. What does the height of the mountain in meters and the distance to the poles in thousands of kilometers have to do with it? The professor is lying and does not realize that measuring between two points on the geoid with an accuracy of up to a kilometer is a complex mathematical problem. But if we actually pierce the globe with a knitting needle through the center from Easter Island, then we will end up 1000 km away from Kailash - into the Thar Desert on the border of India and Pakistan. By the way, I have already discussed in detail the topic of “incomprehensible” Easter Island idols.
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Meanwhile, A. Redko and S. Balalaev, following the results of the 2009 expedition, among other “sensational results”, manage to make a “breakthrough in natural science” and for the first time accurately determine the height of Mount Kailash! In the chapter “Details of the most significant results of expeditionary work” (in the same book where their mountain “breathes around a height of 6666m”) the authors write:
“...the exact height of Kailash at the top was determined - 6612 m (in a small area 6613 m). Thus, the true height of the mountain is somewhat less than indicated on the maps (6714m)"
After this “fundamental discovery,” we should probably soon expect a new sensation. Since the height of Kailash turned out to be not 6666, but 6613 meters, then, consequently, the distance from the mountain to the North Pole is now 6613 km, and to the South Pole - twice 6613 km. This can only mean one thing: the radius of the Earth is somewhat smaller than science thought!!! Well, or the Earth “pulsates” in the rhythm of Kailash and, following him, also shrank!
Watch your hands
A lot of discoveries were made by the “Redko-Muldashists” using the method of elementary contemplation of the mountain in different sunlight. If you look for a long time and with prejudice, you will definitely see some images and secret signs among the rocks... Just like children who like to watch the clouds and see human faces and animal figures in them, occult scientists do the same thing, but only by peering into the stones. In a system of cracks on the mountainside, they enthusiastically recognize a swastika, looking at ordinary rock walls, they see in them huge artificial “stone mirrors”, “concentrating tantric energy.” They calculate meters and degrees and then manipulate the numbers, comparing them with the height of the Easter Island idols, the shape of the constellation Ursa Major, the length of the base of the Egyptian pyramids, the number of beads in Buddhist rosaries, and so on. Deeply meaningless numerical correlations are basically the “scientific” content of their expedition reports.
So, contrary to his own “discovery of the true height of Kailash - 6613m,” A. Redko, in the line below, begins to juggle numbers and show tricks with another number - 6612:
“By the way,” he writes, “for thought for esotericists and numerologists: the number corresponding to the height of the mountain 6+6=12 and 12+12=24 looks interesting! Or maybe there is a connection here with December (the twelfth month) of 2012, the time when one of the cycles of the Mayan calendar - Tzolkin - ends? Note that during the Tibetan expedition N.K. Roerich, very great importance was attached to the number 24!”
What the author wanted to say with this set of words is not at all clear. But now the phrase quoted above is clear: “...the exact height of Kailash at the top is 6612m (in a small area 6613m)”. The principle of numerological focus is also clear.
Here's how it's done. We take the number 6714 (the height of Kailash) and quietly correct the seven to a six, and the four to a three. Nobody noticed how 6714 turned into 6613? Wonderful. With the next move, we sacrifice one more meter exclusively “for the good of science.” Just a meter is such a small thing compared to the incomprehensible essence of Mount Kailash!
And now, with a new “constant” (6612 m), you can safely go out to the general public with the presentation of the book “Tibet - Kailash. The profitability of mysticism."
“Be careful,” says the nonsense writer from the stage of the Vasyukinsky club of esoteric chess lovers, “we are moving on to the arithmetic mystery of tantric numerology.”
Ain). 6+6=12;
Zwein). 1+2=12;
Drain). 12+12=24!!!
... and we have N. Roerich’s favorite number! Congratulations to all of us on this scientific discovery!
- Wait, wait, grandmaster professor, but you are cheating! - A one-eyed lover of numerology and dowsing shouts from the audience. - But this is complete bullshit! Where did you get the second “12” from!?
- And here! From there! I should have looked more closely at my hands! I also found a lover! You need to kill such amateurs!..
- But excuse me, teacher, then return the money for the book!
- That's it, comrades, the lecture is over. Please disperse! Thank you all for your valuable purchase, enjoy your reading!
Let's try one more trick. With Everest. The height of the mountain, as is known, is 8848m. But why not write: “The height of Everest is 8844 m (in a small area 8848 m).” A “concession” of 4 m is an absolutely insignificant “error” of 0.045%, but the number 8844 is much “more convenient” for our “science”. So, 8844, and we begin to exercise in numerology. Watch your hands.
Option #1:
8+8+4+4=24
!!! There is a favorite number of N. Roerich in the Tibetan expedition!
Option No. 2:
8x8=64
64+44=108
!!! Ready! Here it is, the sacred Tibetan number!
And by the way, does everyone present know that Everest is also a pyramid!? Here you can see:
14. Mount Everest is pyramid-shaped and the neighboring eight-thousanders. 2008, Nepal, photograph taken from an airplane 
“A male lingam in a female vagina...”
Having mastered the technique of cheating with numbers, Redko and Balalaev followed the path of absurdity. They learned to find the hidden sacred meaning of Mount Kailash not only in manipulated numbers, but also in photographs from space. A most fruitful activity for professional travel schemers! (And this despite the fact that earlier Professor Muldashev generally claimed that not a single plane was able to fly over Kailash, and that even from spacecraft it was never possible to photograph the sacred mountain!).
The books by A. Redko and S. Balabaev, however, abound in space photographs. The “analysis” of photographs from space is reduced by the authors to the children’s game “What does it look like!?” This is an extremely important method for storytellers to understand the essence of Kailash. Here's a typical example:
“...Now let’s look at the Symmetrical Valley” again... Yes, it has the shape of an ankh! The same rounding in the northern part of the valley, the same cross formed by two almost symmetrical pocket valleys with pyramids in the middle part! But, as we have just seen, since ancient times in the traditions of all peoples it has been customary to consider the ankh to be an image of the path to energy and new life.
Look again at the photo of this amazing valley. After all, on the other hand, it is shaped like a male lingam in a female vagina at the moment of intercourse (remember that in this valley the water is pink, and this is not the case anywhere else in Kailash)! All this then passes into the symbolic “womb” - the Valley of Death. What if we assume that the birth of something or someone, or rather, takes place in Death Valley!?
15. Drawing (space image) from the book by A. Redko and S. Balalaev “Tibet - Kailash. Mysticism and reality (2009), p.157 
And doesn't this mean that the Valley of Death is actually the Valley of Life?
That it is there that the hypothetical birth of entities or beings (new races?) occurs in accordance with cosmic cycles or God’s will (which is the same thing).”
Friends, answer me, did you understand anything from what was written? Me not. I don’t even ask why a professional traveler (that’s how guru A. Redko imagines himself) and a mountain climber (that’s how physicist S. Balalaev imagines himself) saw in the picture a cross-section of a vagina, with a penis inside and some kind of cross, and not something else . Why didn't it seem to them like a pacifier, for example, or, say, like the hilt of a sword?
But I bought the book :)
I thought a lot about who they really are - these “Muldashevs”: sincere fanatics of Buddhism, kind storytellers, naive crazy people, or arrogant pragmatic swindlers? And I came to the conclusion that, most likely, it’s the latter. After all, Mount Kailash is a “promoted”, profitable brand. Worse than Easter Island. There are plenty of gullible ordinary people who are willing to buy non-scientific fiction and believe in any occult nonsense. Every Country of Fools has its own fox, Alice, and cat, Basilio. Why not “make money”!
The more nonsense you spew, the more “novelty in discoveries” and the faster they will buy - apparently this is what pseudoscientific swindlers are guided by. But sometimes it still seems to me that they are honest people and they themselves believe in their own writings.
But for some reason I got very carried away with the criticism, and in the meantime we arrived very close to the village of Darchen at the foot of Kailash, and today, very soon, we will be able to check whether, as the “muldazvons” claim, “The mountain does not let anyone in... everyone, Absolutely any person, going to Kailash, overcomes a certain milestone... physically tangible. You feel as if you are passing into a denser environment...”
What if these people are not lying!? What if suddenly this evening (when with friends we set foot on the path of the sacred outer cortex), we run into the “condensed air” of Kailash? And won't the path lead us to the Vagina of Death? And won’t we begin to have visions in the form of “thousands of small luminous swastikas hanging in the air” and “a ray of light always shooting from the top of Kailash”?...And then I will actually turn out to be “Doubting Thomas” (as he says about me my wife).
However, I will pause at this point with revelations, just in case... But then we will continue...
In the meantime, I’m writing a sequel, help me answer two questions.
There are a huge number of stunningly beautiful and at the same time mysterious places on Earth that attract the attention of travelers and researchers. One of these is Mount Kailash (or, as some sources also call it, Kailash), which is located in the southern part of the Tibetan Plateau of the Trans-Himalayan (Gangdise) system and territorially belongs to China. Kailash is translated from Tibetan as “Jewel of Snows”. Kailash is the highest part of this mountain system, its height is 6638 meters above sea level, although data may differ - the question is a few tens of meters.
The four largest rivers of the Indian subcontinent originate from the slopes of Mount Kailash: the tributaries of the Ganges - the Brahmaputra and Karnali, the Indus and its tributary the Sutlej.
Due to the height and lack of civilization, difficulties arise in exploring the mountain - very little is known about Kailash so far, but this mountain is fraught with many mysteries, unconfirmed theories that are waiting in the wings. Many attempts to conquer the very top of the mountain have failed. So far no one has managed to do this. The expeditions were not given permission by the Chinese authorities, the UN and the Dalai Lama; pilgrims staged demonstrations and blocked the path.
Her appearance is a mystery in itself. The faces of Mount Kailash are located according to the four cardinal directions, and some scientists believe that this is an ancient pyramid, which is adjacent to smaller mountains and forms an entire system. Geologists believe that over the course of thousands of years the shape of the pyramid was given to it by wind and water, and the mountain itself appeared under the ocean, as a result of movements and collisions of the earth’s crust, being pushed to the surface.
And the cracks on the southern side of the mountain look like a swastika, which in Buddhism means the highest divine power and perfection. Perhaps such cracks could have formed as a result of an earthquake, but Tibet is a place where incredible miracles happen. It looks like someone did this on purpose for their own secret reasons. According to some assumptions, it is one of the ancient civilizations.
Mount Kailash is mentioned in many ancient myths, legends and religious texts of Asia and is recognized as sacred among four religions:
- Hindus believe that at its peak is the favorite abode of Shiva; in the Vishnu Purana it is indicated as the city of the gods and the cosmic center of the Universe.
- In Buddhism, it is the seat of the Buddha, the heart of the world and the place of power.
- Jains worship the mountain as the place where Mahavira, their first prophet and greatest saint, gained true insight and interrupted samsara.
- The Bon people call the mountain a place of concentration of vitality, the center of an ancient country and the soul of their traditions. Unlike believers of the first three religions, who make a kora (purifying pilgrimage) after sun exposure, Bon followers go towards the sun.
Mount Kailash is overgrown with many myths and legends. This is one of the most famous places of pilgrimage, because Hindus have Kailash - sacred mountain, where the god Shiva resides, and Buddhists consider it the palace of Buddha. Many are firmly convinced that the mountain is supposedly hollow inside and the enlightened have found refuge there. To make a complete circuit around it, you need to walk a distance of 53 kilometers along the valley at the base. The special name for such a pilgrimage is “kora” and it came from Tibetan monks. Anyone who has committed kora at least once in his life is freed from karma, all the sins he has committed during his life and can be calm about his next incarnation - he will definitely be lucky with his future incarnation. There are three monasteries around the mountain, where pilgrims are sure to come during their tour. The entire circumambulation (necessarily clockwise) lasts about three days, during which believing pilgrims stop for the night right in the open air. Funeral rites are also performed in the valley and being buried in this place is considered a blessing, since the soul is cleansed and the torment of hell does not threaten it. And the one who performs the kora 108 times will achieve the highest enlightenment, like the Buddha.
There are many unique places in the world with unusual properties. One of these “places of power” is Mount Kailash in the high mountain valley of Tibet. Pilgrims come here to the southwest of China to make a ritual circuit around the mountain - Koru
Scientists are still arguing about the history of this amazing mountain. Is Kailash an artificially created pyramid or a mountain of natural origin? Today there is no reliable information about this, as well as how many years ago Kailash was born and why it has the shape of a pyramid, the edges of which accurately indicate parts of the world. It is also surprising and inexplicable that the height of the mountain is 6666 m, the distance from Kailash to the Stonehenge monument is 6666 km, and the same to the North Pole, and to the South Pole – 13,332 km (6666 * 2).
Kailash is a place shrouded in thousands of secrets and legends. And until now, the top of the sacred mountain has not been conquered by anyone. Kailash does not allow mere mortals to reach the peak, where according to legend the gods live. Many tried against all odds to get there. But no one was able to overcome the invisible wall, which, as would-be travelers claim, arose on their way, preventing them from reaching the sacred peak. Kailash seems to push them away, allowing only those who really believe to perform ritual kora.
The 4 greatest rivers of Asia, possessing powerful energies, originate from Kailash. It is believed that when a person circumambulates Kailash, he comes into contact with this power. Kailash is a very powerful center of power. It carries the energy of dissolving everything old. The one who does kora is filled with energy and vitality to help people.
It is a custom to circumambulate Kailash. A custom of faith that contains enormous power. In Kailash they say that the one who goes through the kora with faith and a feeling of unity with God gains special divine power here.
The large kora around Kailash takes 2-3 days. Throughout the entire journey, a person passes through the strongest energy centers where divine flows are felt. Kailash is like a temple. All stones on the path have a certain charge. Pilgrims believe that demigods or supreme souls live in the stones. According to ancient legends, many divine beings who visited here once turned into stones. And now these stones have special divine power.
The first day of the kora is anticipation, lightness, elation. On the second day, you pass the highest and most difficult pass – Death Pass. They say that during this period you can experience death. For example, a person may fall and go into a trance. Many people say that during such a trance they felt their body at the very top of Kailash.
The Drolma-la pass symbolizes new birth. People try to leave something personal in this place. It is believed that this is how a person clears his karma. This is a symbol of leaving the past, a certain dark, negative part of the soul. Having thrown off everything unnecessary at this pass, it becomes easier and freer to go further.
Around Kailash you can walk either along the outer circle - the large one, or along the small one - the inner one. Only those who have walked around the outer one 13 times are allowed to enter the inner one. They say that if one immediately goes there, the high divine energy will block the person’s path.
There are beautiful lakes on the inner crust, the water in them is sacred. On the shores of these lakes there is a monastery. People believe that the enlightened still live there. And if someone is lucky enough to meet them, he will be blessed.
When a pilgrim passes the kora, he turns to higher powers and addresses them with prayer. Kailash is the symbol of the supreme deity. And the external journey to Kailash is actually an internal journey to one’s deity.
There is a belief that the god Shiva lives on Kailash. For Hindus, Shiva is a force and energy capable of creating and destroying worlds. They believe that there are three main forces in the universe: creation, maintenance and destruction. The power of Shiva is the connection with universal energy.
On the way of a wanderer, obstacles often appear, both physical and spiritual. Kailash tests a person’s strength and points out weaknesses. Overcoming all difficulties in pilgrimage is the best way to purify and change.
When a pilgrim leaves Kailash and descends lower, he understands that he doesn’t need much to be happy. We have air that we can breathe, we have food, a roof over our heads - and this is enough for external material happiness; everything else must be sought within.
For millions of years people have been coming here and bringing prayer into their hearts. Lake Manasarovar, like Kailash, is revered as sacred. To his right is the peak of Gurla Mandhata. According to legend, she was a king in a past life. Then there was no water here and the king began to pray. One day, God heard his prayers and created a lake from his mind. This lake is the sacred Lake Manasarovar.
Another lake near Kailash, called Rakshas Tal, is considered cursed. It is separated from the sacred lake by a narrow isthmus. Surprisingly, with such a close location, these two bodies of water have huge differences. You can take a dip in the sacred lake, there is fish there and you can drink the water from it. The water in this lake is fresh and is considered healing. Lake Rakshas Tal, on the contrary, is salty and you cannot plunge into it. And places where there is a source with dead and living water nearby have been considered places of power since ancient times.
Kailash also has another sacred lake - Gaurikund. According to legend, it was created by Shiva for his wife Parvati. She helped people a lot, which left her body very exhausted. Having bathed in this lake, Parvati acquired a new body, and since then no one else can touch its sacred waters. There are many legends about the death of people who touched Gaurikund Lake.
There are 4 caves in the vicinity of Kailash. One of them, Milarepa's cave, is located southeast of Kailash next to the sacred path. According to legend, the great yogi Milarepa placed two stone blocks at the entrance of the cave, on which he installed a huge granite slab. This slab cannot be moved by hundreds or even thousands of people. And Milarepa carved it out of granite and laid it with the help of his spiritual power. And it was in this place that he achieved his enlightenment.
There is a legend that Milarepa and the Bonn priest Naro Bonchung fought for power over Kailash. During the first confrontation between supernatural forces on Lake Manasarovar, Milarepa stretched his body across the surface of the lake, and Naro Bonchung stood on the surface of the water from above. Not satisfied with the results, they continued the fight by running around Kailash. Milarepa moved clockwise, and Naro Bonchung moved counterclockwise. Having met at the top of the Dolma-la pass, they continued the magical battle, but again to no avail. Then Naro Bonchung proposed to climb to the top of Kailash on the day of the full moon immediately after dawn. Whoever rises first will win. On the appointed day, Naro Bonchung, riding his shamanic drum, flew to the top. Milarepa was resting calmly below. And as soon as the first rays of the sun reached the peak of Kailash, Milarepa grabbed one of the rays and instantly reached the top, gaining power over the sacred mountain.
Kailash has prayer flags hanging everywhere. These are protective symbols. People hang them to achieve success in some good endeavors. These flags are also called "Wind Horses". The symbol of prayer flags is a horse carrying a jewel on its back. It is believed that it fulfills wishes, brings well-being and prosperity. The flags are made of five primary colors, symbolizing the five elements of the human body. Mantras are applied to them, which are activated upon contact with the wind and carry encrypted messages throughout the world.
Kailash is a place of spiritual power that awakens believers and purifies their minds. People flock here to say the prayer that everyone carries in their hearts. It is believed that the one who makes this pilgrimage will be cleansed of all his sins and learn the secret of the universe.
