The first dose of Yatris next to Mountain Kailash in Nepal 25 June 2025 | Photo Credit: Suhasini Haider
Six years after the last Kailash Mansarovar Yatra (pilgrimage) took place, a group of 36 Indian pilgrims carried out a challenging trek around 18,000 feet of a high mountain Kailash and took water at Lake Mansarovar. Yatra at one of Hindu’s Holy Hinduism is the first of the people between people between India and China to be restored after the Covid-19 pandemic and the LAC Military Stand-off line, which was decided last year by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Other mechanisms are expected to follow, including the restoration of direct flights, opening visas and tourism, as well as solving economic and business problems through a separate mechanism. Pilgrims also arrived even though the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and the Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh visited China at a SCO meeting.
The first dose included all ages from 18 to 69 years, organizational leaders of the group told a group of Indian journalists in the hostel Zhunzhu Pu, where they stay for several nights when they finish their parikrams (circling on the mountain and lake). Each group includes a physician and the Ministry of external matters (MEA), a node agency for the body of Kailash Mansarovar Yatra (KMY), and also coordinated with the Chinese government to allow Indian chefs to travel in front of the group and start tents to provide them with food they are more familiar with.
“We are so happy that this Yatra has been restarted and most of us have been approaching Mea over the past few years, and who repeatedly hoped to continue the pilgrimage,” said Shailendra Sharma, a group coordinator whose members looked visibly moved by an experience.
Asked by Suman Lata, he newly left as a school teacher, that during the transition, the group had not felt no tension between India and China, dominated by bilateral ties in the last few years, after the clashes of the Galwans and Stand-off between the Indian Army and Pla in points like Demchok, just about 250 km east of Pulan).
“We don’t have a truck with politics, I can only say that the Indian government sent us very well and the Chinese government also accepted us very well,” she told reporters.
The group is one of the 15 groups that pass through NATHA LA in Sikkim and Lipulek Pass with the originally 750, which originally selected, pass more than 3,000 km from the gangtok and back between June 15 and June 2. Others will follow the same way or come through Lipulek Pass by Uttarakhand, a slightly more difficult and longer trek to Trijunction and China and China and Trijunction and Trijunc.
Devices
Before Yatra, local officials stated that they had carried out a thorough survey of the device that would be used. While several non -resident Indians (NRI) have been able to carry out a pilgrimage in the last few years using private travel agencies, their number was lower than before, which meant a decline in work that local Tibetan wearers received and business in small neighboring cities.
“A large organization for this cross -cultural exchange is an important consensus between the leaders of India and China,” said Wen Tao, deputy Commissioner Ali Prefecture, who came to greet the first dose and supervise agreements. He added that Chinese officials have been working to improve the efficiency of immigration checkpoints in NATHA LA with biometrics and provided multilingual interpreters in various stages, oxygen facilities and special prayer areas in places.
Pranav Gupta of Jammu, who recovered from a daily trek for more than 19 km, took them to a height of 5,590 meters over higher altitudes and oxygen problems. “It is a faith that is not a fitness that really gets us every day of this trek,” said Mrs. Lata.
In addition to the Hindus, who honors the 6,638 m high peak as the abode of one of their most powerful gods, Shiva, as well as the gates of the sky, are also worshiped by Buddhists who believe that the peak is referred to as “Mount Meru” is the central source of spiritual energy. It is assumed for Jains that one of their first Tirthankaras Rishabdev has reached a trek on what Mount “Ashtapada” calls. Tibetan bons, other ancient religions, also honor the mountains and lakes, and pilgrims, and the worshipers of several swords are in the summer season who make them “koras” or routes around them. As a result of the “sanctity” of locations, the Chinese government in 2001-2002 decided to ban all attempts to climb to Mount Kailash and strictly regulate visits to Lake Mansarovar, one of the double pair of lakes. In 1981, India and China agreed to restart an ancient pilgrimage route.
Published – June 25, 2025 21:45
