Western Tibet and the British borderland : the sacred country of Hindus and Buddhists, with an account of the government, religion, and customs of its peoples / by Charles A. Sherring ; with a chapter by T.G. Longstaff describing an attempt to climb Gurla Mandhata. With illustrations and maps.

  • Sherring, Charles A. (Charles Atmore)
Date:
1906
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Credit: Western Tibet and the British borderland : the sacred country of Hindus and Buddhists, with an account of the government, religion, and customs of its peoples / by Charles A. Sherring ; with a chapter by T.G. Longstaff describing an attempt to climb Gurla Mandhata. With illustrations and maps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of their gods, where Shiva lived, and Krishna dallied with the cow-herd maids, and to Mount Kailas, the heaven of Shiva and the goal of all happiness. Waddell, in his “Buddhism of Tibet” (p. 81),writing of the belief of the Tibetans regarding their heaven, says : “ And in the very cen- tre is the 4 King of Moun- tains,’ Mount Meru (Kailas), towering erect, 4 like the handle of a mill - stone,’ while halfway up its side is the great wishing-tree, the prototype of our 4 Christmas- tree,’ and the object of con- tention between the gods and the Titans. Meru has square eastern face is crystal, the south is sapphire, the west is ruby, and the north is gold, and it is clothed with fragrant flowers and shrubs.” Here also are the Holy Lakes of Mansarowar and Rakas, so eloquently described in the “ Ramayana ” in the passage given below (see pp. 36, 37). The British territory, which adjoins this part of Tibet, is the Kumaon borderland, which is to the Hindu 44 what Palestine is to the Christian, the place where those whom the Hindu esteems most spent portions of their lives, the home of the great gods, the 4 great way to final liberation.’ This is a living belief, and thousands every year prove their faith by visiting the shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath. To many the sides of gold and jewels. Its JAGAT SING, POLITICAL PESHKAR