The first dose of Indian pilgrims arrived in Tibet on Thursday to visit Sacred Mount Kailash and Manasarovar Lake, according to Chinese officials. “He liked to know that the first dose of pilgrims arrived on the lake Mapam Yun TSO (Manasarovar) in the autonomous region of Xizang (Tibet) in China,” the Chinese ambassador to India Xu Feihong published on X.
The journey of 36 pilgrims to Mount Kailash and Manasarovar Lake is of particular importance because they are the first group of Indian devotees to visit a sacred place after a five -year gap.
The ties between India and China remained tense for more than four years due to the Eastern Ladakh Standof.
Both countries have agreed to restore links after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the edge of the Brics summit in Russia, Kazan.
Restoring Kailash and Manasarovar Yatra is mentioned as the first step initiated by both countries to restore ties.
Pilgrims arrived in the Tibetan autonomous province on Friday last, which meant the restoration of pilgrims.
China calls Tibet ‘Xizang’ and Mt. Kailash ‘Mt. Gang Renpoche ‘and Manasarovar Lake as’ Mapam Yun Tso’.
Mountain and lake are sacred to Hindu, Buddhists and Jains.
For 68 -year -old Damin Bendya, who performs his first visit to Tibet, the mountain is a sacred place.
“China and India are neighbors. China is amazing, and all employees were very warm and helpful here,” she told the state news agency Xinhua on arrival in Lhasa, the provincial capital of Tibet.
The pilgrimage to both places was suspended in 2020.
28. April, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry GUO Jiakun announced its renewal this summer on the basis of a bilateral agreement.
Kailash and Lake Manasarovar are “sacred mountain and lake” for believers several religions, including Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism, Guo said, adding that these pilgrimages are an important part of cultural and people between China and India.
Guo notes that this year is the 75th anniversary of diplomatic links between China and India, and said China is ready to cooperate with India to seriously implement an important common understanding between the leaders of both countries and promote relations in China-India based on sound and stable development.
According to the Regional Office of Foreign Affairs, the second group of Indian pilgrims is planned to enter China through the passage of Nath La Pass.
(With inputs from the press agency PTI)
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