Lake Manasarovar

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File:Yaks-Kailash-Manasarovar.jpg
Lake Manasarovar with Mount Kailash in the distance.

Lake Mansarovar (Mānasarōvara), also called Mapam Yumtso (T. ma pham g.yu mtsho མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།; Chinese: 瑪旁雍錯; pinyin: Mǎ páng yōng cuò) is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers in Southwestern Tibet.

The lake along with Mount Kailash to its north are sacred sites in four religions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Bön.

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