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    Published: 2012-11-18
    Vol. 56 (2012)

    Współczesna indyjska pielgrzymka narodowa do góry Kailas i jeziora Manasarowar w Tybecie

    Anna Urbańska-Szymoszyn

    Abstract

    This article presents a contemporary Indian national pilgrimage called Kailash-Manasarovar Yatra,
    organized every year by the government in Delhi for about 650 Siva worshipers. The pilgrims go on an
    extremely difficult over-a-month pilgrimage to Mount Kailas in Tibet (China). It is a challenge for them,
    a dream come true and a socio-religious prestige. They obtain the honorary title “Kailashi Yatri”. This
    article has been prepared based on the ethnological fieldwork done in 1998 and 2007. Seeing religious
    phenomena in the socio-ethnological context, which is the organization and conduct of the KMY, origins
    of pilgrims, their relationships, self-presentation, private opinions about yatra, and also the historical
    and political background of the pilgrimage to Kailas, relating to the uncertain political situation of the
    Himalayan border between India and China, give a picture of contemporary social and cultural phe-
    nomenon, in which the great policy directly affects the lives of ordinary people and local communities;
    both those in the Indian mainland and on the mountainous borderland.

    Keywords:

    Yatra, Kailas, Manasarovar, Indian pilgrimage, Indian-Chinese border relations, Tibet, Sivaism

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    Urbańska-Szymoszyn, A. (2012). Współczesna indyjska pielgrzymka narodowa do góry Kailas i jeziora Manasarowar w Tybecie . Etnografia Polska, 56, 85–119. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/article/view/3235

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