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Mount Kailash Mount Kailash, in the Kailash Range, and Lake Mapam—both in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China Lake Mapam, or Manasarovar Kubera Ravana lifting Mount Kailāsa Statues of Shiva and Parvati seated together in a shrine, with a statue of Ganesha in front, surrounded by offerings and lamps in a Hindu temple cave in Namchi, Sikkim, India. Shiva The stone-carved Kailasa temple at Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India, features intricate sculptural details and rises from the surrounding rock cliffs. The Brihadishvara Temple in Thanjavur, India, features a towering, intricately carved stone structure with smaller shrines and visitors at its base. Milarepa
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Mount Kailash
The northern face of Mount Kailash is snowy and forbidding, looking to many as if...
Ondřej Žváček
Mount Kailash, in the Kailash Range, and Lake Mapam—both in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China
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Lake Mapam, or Manasarovar
The crystal clear waters of Lake Mapam (Manasarovar), with pyramidal Mount Kailash...
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Kubera
One resident of Mount Kailash in the early Hindu sources is Kubera, the god of wealth....
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase (M.69.13.8), www.lacma.org
Ravana lifting Mount Kailāsa
The divine couple Shiva and Parvati sitting atop Mount Kailāsa (Kailash) while the...
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Sundry Purchase Fund (1971.173), www.clevelandart.org
Shiva and Parvati
Statues of the divine couple Shiva and Parvati, joined by their elephant-headed son,...
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Shiva
A large statue of Shiva, outside the Shivoham Shiva Temple, Bengaluru, Karnataka,...
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Kailāsa (Kailasanatha) Temple, Ellora Caves
Among the oldest Hindu temples is the Kailāsa (Kailasanatha) Temple, located in the...
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Brihadishvara Temple
The central vimana (spire) of Brihadishvara Temple towering over the temple's...
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Milarepa
The great ascetic Milarepa; mineral pigments and gold on cotton cloth with silk borders,...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Phillips (M.82.165.2), www.lacma.org
Rishabhanatha
A statue of the first Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhanatha, in meditation. White marble...
Photograph by sisleyceli. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Drs. Peter and Caroline Koblenzer, AC1998.256.2
Mount Kailash
Mount Kailash, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
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