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    The author narrates his journey to Mount Kailash in Tibet to perform the holy kora ritual. Accompanied by his driver Tsetan and another traveler, they encountered vast landscapes and high mountain passes along the way. They reached Darchen town near Mansarovar Lake, though the author was disappointed by the town's condition. After resting, the author decided to wait for better conditions to do the kora, during which time he met Norbu, an academic also hoping to do the pilgrimage. They decided to complete the kora as a team, fulfilling the author's goal of cultivating positive thinking.

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    The author narrates his journey to Mount Kailash in Tibet to perform the holy kora ritual. Accompanied by his driver Tsetan and another traveler, they encountered vast landscapes and high mountain passes along the way. They reached Darchen town near Mansarovar Lake, though the author was disappointed by the town's condition. After resting, the author decided to wait for better conditions to do the kora, during which time he met Norbu, an academic also hoping to do the pilgrimage. They decided to complete the kora as a team, fulfilling the author's goal of cultivating positive thinking.

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    The author narrates his journey to Mount Kailash in Tibet to perform the holy kora ritual. Accompanied by his driver Tsetan and another traveler, they encountered vast landscapes and high mountain passes along the way. They reached Darchen town near Mansarovar Lake, though the author was disappointed by the town's condition. After resting, the author decided to wait for better conditions to do the kora, during which time he met Norbu, an academic also hoping to do the pilgrimage. They decided to complete the kora as a team, fulfilling the author's goal of cultivating positive thinking.

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    The author of the chapter ‘Silk Road’, Nick Middleton,

    narrates his journey to Mount Kailash through Tibet. He


    wanted to perform the holy ritual of the kora and saw it as
    a motivation for positive thinking that he wanted to
    inculcate more in his daily life.

    While leaving a place called Ravu, the author is


    accompanied by another person named Daniel. The name
    of their driver is Tsetan. A local lady from Ravu named
    Lhamo gifted a sheepskin coat to the author. It was the
    general attire of the drokbas. Tsetan knew a route to
    Mount Kailash in the southwest direction that would
    involve passing through several high mountain passes.

    Along the way, the author saw vast, open arid pastures
    with gazelles nibbling on them; dust clouds called kyang;
    solitary drokbas looking after their cattle and nomads’
    tents guarded by Tibetan mastiffs. The massive and fear-
    inducing anatomy of these Tibetan mastiffs made the
    author realise why they were popular as hunting dogs in
    China’s imperial courts. Soon, they encountered snow-
    capped mountains that were quite difficult to pass through.
    The altitude at this place was 5,210 metres above sea
    level, according to the author’s watch. The cold affected
    his physiological functions and he started experiencing a
    headache.
    They reached the top of the mountain pass, which was
    5,515 metres above sea level and marked by a pile of
    rocks. The author finally started feeling better as they
    descended to a work camp set up beside a dry Salt Lake.
    By afternoon, they reached a small town called Hor –
    which the author describes as ‘miserable’ with no greenery
    and only rocks and dust. Daniel parted ways here and
    went back to Lhasa. The author expresses his
    disappointment at his expectations of the Mansoravar
    Lake on whose shore the town of Hor was situated. There
    was garbage everywhere.

    Finally, they arrived at a guest house in Darchen at night.


    The author could not sleep, and Tsetan took him to the
    Darchen medical college the following morning. Once he
    was assured that the author was well and could do the
    kora, Tsetan returned to Lhasa.

    After a good night’s sleep, Darchen did not look so horrible


    to the author, and he felt relaxed. He describes Darchen
    as a dusty and derelict town with a few rudimentary stores.
    The author could not see too many pilgrims around and
    assumed that he might have arrived very early for the
    pilgrim season. He did not want to do the kora alone, with
    the snow blocking most of the way.
    As he waited for optimum conditions to do the kora, he
    met Norbu, who was an academic researcher working on
    the importance of it in various works of Buddhist literature
    at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. The
    author got to know Norbu better and found out that he was
    there to do the kora as well. Both academicians decided to
    do the pilgrimage as a team, and the author felt that his
    positive-thinking strategy was working again.

    Conclusion of Silk Road


    The author had to face many challenges, which made him
    develop a negative attitude towards his journey many
    times, but he stayed put and was finally able to find
    someone as interested in the kora as him. Both found
    common grounds in their motivation towards the
    pilgrimage. The author ends his travel account on a note
    of positivity. He finds out that thinking positively does lead
    to good outcomes in life

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