![]() ![]() It then reappears on the Indian side as the Siang river.īritish botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward, who traveled in this region in 1926, was astounded by what he saw. ![]() In the Tibetan Plateau near the northwestern tip of Nepal-in proximity to the sacred Mount Kailash, revered as the abode of the Hindu god Shiva-hangs a tongue of the Angsi glacier.įrom the tongue of that glacier flows a trickle of water that bears the name Tamchok Khambab, a name given in the Tibetan holy book Kangri Karchok that loosely translates to “the river with a mouth like a horse’s ear.” This river is unlike any other on Earth.Ĭerulean at times, emerald at others, embracing into its fold several other trickles, collecting sediment and gravel along its course, swelling and growing, this river takes on many names, and as many personalities, as it wends its long way home from the high plateau of Tibet to the Bay of Bengal, which borders peninsular India.īy the time it reaches the southern side of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, the trickle that was the Tamchok Khambab swells to become Yarlung Tsangpo, “The Great River.” It pushes east for almost 1,625 kilometers, then makes a hairpin bend and vanishes into a deep gorge that straddles the border between China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and India. Long considered impenetrable, the grind of industry now threatens this prophesied “promised land.” ![]() Arati Kumar-Rao ventures into a forested river gorge in the hidden land of Pemakö, which exists deep within the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist belief system. ![]()
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