LLASA
Written by: Dr. Sam Osmanagich
Tibet, China
May 2017
We had forged at the beginning of the Bosnian Pyramid research project that the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun is the mother of all pyramids because it is the oldest pyramidal construction in the world. It’s the time for me to visit the father of all pyramids, the pyramidal mountain Kailash in Tibet.
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In the end of April 2007, we have been visited by Dr. Harry Oldfield, the British biologist who has developed the special PIP camera for the energy fields recording. After he shot the pyramids on April 30, the following day, on May 1, he had an interesting experiment. A German woman brought to Visoko her collectable and old crystal skull, which once belonged to the Mayans. They’ve shot the top of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun without the skull, and the results showed the same values and vertical energy fields as the day before. Then, the crystal skull was introduced as the plateau, which leads to the pyramid top from the west side. The camera was in the Hotel “Pyramid of the Sun”. At the moment when the skull was out of the bag, the camera showed that at the same time there was one energy beam starts from the pyramid top, and the other one from the skull, meeting in the middle of the way. Did they establish the communication?
At that time, spring 2007, we didn’t give much attention to this experiment. It was too exotic and esoteric to be publicly announced. We still didn’t fully understand the relations of the Bosnian Pyramids. Later on, having many measurements of the energy phenomena, we realized that everything was alive, having its own frequency. So is the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun, very old and powerful energy, communicating with other energies. The evidence to prove this is the experiment with the crystal skull, first time ever done in the world.
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This time, I’ve entered China from the south-east, via Guangzhou the million-city near Hong Kong. The enormous airport and a residence hub for the airway company China Southern. It isn’t the largest in China, but it has 260 Airbus airplane models 330, 320 ea. Boeing 747, and it’s only for these categories. There are tens of other models. Everything in this country is huge.
After a two-hour flight, I arrive at Chengdu in Central China. I’ve asked the steward what is the time zone in Chengdu. He answers that entire China is one time zone. With laughter, he said that when it is noon in one part, in the other part of China the sun already has set. This city is the springboard for the flight to Tibet. The million-city, with avenues too wide, with the biggest airport tower that I have seen by now. The Sichuan Airways residence hub. Besides the visa for China, I needed four permits to visit Tibet: regular Tibetan, air, land, and one for entering the territory of holy mountain Kailash, my goal of the journey.
Another two hours of flight on the next day. Llasa. Mystic and ancient, the headquarters of the Tibetan wisdom, and numerous Buddhist secrets. From the airplane, parallel with us, on the 8300 meters, the mountain peaks were lined up. Llasa is located on a large plateau on 3600 meters altitude. While landing, I was surprised to see a modern highway beneath me. I didn’t expect that. Later, I’ve found that it was built last year and connects the airport with the capital city of Tibet, reducing the travel on 45 minutes of the ride.
A Chinese woman April welcomed me with the team and I received the traditional Tibetan white scarf around my chest. Later on, the other expedition participants arrived from Russia, Germany and Bulgaria. It’s six of us.
We head to Llasa.
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Wolfgang Wolmer is 69 years old. This is his seventh visit to Tibet. The first time he was listening Dalai Lama in 1998, near Hamburg. He liked what he heard and he became a Buddhist. He felt the call to make the “kora”, the walk around the holy mountain Kailash. He did it in 2002. Kora lasts for three days, 52 kilometers of the distance to cover. The elevation is 1000 meters and surely the most demanding part is the Dolma La passage on 5670 meters of the altitude. Until month of April, this passage is closed because of the snowfall and ice on the surface. Of course, followed by the low temperatures, strong winds and changing, unpredictable weather.
But, the biggest challenge for everyone is the high altitude. Already on the 3000 meters of altitude, for the low atmospheric pressure, there isn’t enough oxygen pumped into the blood and the organism. Of course, the brain without enough oxygen doesn’t function as usual, with constant headaches, and the body slows down as well as the thinking.
To do the Kora, the holy task for the members of four religions (Hindu, Buddhism, Jainism, Bonpo) is to meet a few challenges: physical, requiring the physical strength, preparation and fitness; mental, because it is important to fight with yourself every hour of the journey, and the spiritual. It’s not uncommon that the Kora participants have hallucinations, and many of them ended tragically.
In the Hindu religion, the mountain Kailash is the residence of the Lord Shiva. In my last year’s visit to the Indian country Tamil Nadu and the city Thiruvannamalai, the centre of the grandiose pyramidal towers (the biggest is 66 meters high), I knew that the following is the visit to Tibet. Namely, these temples dedicated to Shiva are located in the foothill of the mountain Annamalai, where Shiva showed up, bringing the fire for once more to the mankind. According to some stories, there was his end and the Kailash was the beginning.
For the Buddhists, the Kailash is the personification of Buddha. Wolfgang claims that he saw two eyes of Buddha during his first Kora. As the Muslims have the sacred obligation to do at least one Hajj in Mecca, that’s how the Buddhists and Hindu consider Kora as their spiritual duty. It is possible to arrive at this Tibetan location from eight directions (India, China, Bhutan, and Nepal). Eight – the lotus flower.
After twelve Koras, the walk in the exterior circle of Kailash, the right to do the inside Kora is allowed. Wolfgang found a shortcut. Namely, the year 2002 was the year of the horse according to the Tibetan calendar and it replaces the twelve Koras. Therefore, the next time he did the inside Kora already. Two years ago, he wrote a book, the great illustrated manual, on Kora in English. The book is published in Nepal (“The Inner and Outer Paths of Mt. Kailash”).
Our conversation took place in Llasa, the traditional restaurant, with the Tibetan music:
“What is Kora for you?” I asked.
“With the Kora, you gain the merit”, he responded.
The domestic food is brought to the table, plate by plate. April made sure that the restaurant brings the best it offers. More than 80% of the meals are with meat. Four of us don’t eat meat, so our hosts were the ones enjoying the specialties. We were satisfied with the rice and delicious deep fried yoghurt sticks.
Wolfgang said to me:
“The Buddhist priest shouldn’t eat meat. But, because of the high altitudes and energy needs, they eat it. However, they don’t kill the animals, Muslims do that for them. When a Buddhist comes in the visit to some family, he doesn’t ask to kill a yak or some other kind of the animal only for him. But, if they already did it, he participates in the dinner.”
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One hour highway ride from the airport to Llasa and we entered the periphery. Big, residential buildings, skyscrapers, shopping malls, and banks. I can’t believe. Looks like as the periphery of other Chinese million-cities. Nevertheless, Llasa today has a million of inhabitants, mostly Chinese. Tibetans are rarely seen on the streets of their capital city.
Big cars, bicycles, motorbikes, stuffy city streets. We arrived just in the midday rush hour. Thousands of the red Chinese flags, writings on Chinese, big portraits of former communist leaders (from Mao Tse Tung and Chu En Lai, Teng Hsiao Ping to the present Xi).
Finally, in the main street, the view of the Imperial palace of Dalai Lama and the Buddhist temples. Impressive walls, ten meters tall, fenced propriety, with the windows up high on the buildings. Today, the centre of the former world of the Buddhism is surrounded by the wired fence, turned into some kind of a museum, losing its spiritual, educational and energetic role.
The invasion of the Communist army in Tibet in 1950 caused the genocide over the Tibetans, the culturecide over the ancient cultural treasures and present urbicidal of the traditional Tibetan architecture. Whole 80% of the Buddhist priests are Chinese, not Tibetan. The Dalai Lama is in refugee for six decades, fighting, in any way he can, and the West prizes him with the Nobel Award, and he met American and European Presidents, but it was in vain.
After the death of the Dalai Lama, the Chinese will proclaim their own Dalai Lama, and the remaining Tibetan priests will proclaim the real Dalai Lama as it has been done for generations (reincarnation in a baby Tibetan). The division will follow. The stronger will oppress. The Tibetan Buddhism will suffer from its final stroke.
I am passing by the Dalai Lama Residence (The Potala Palaca, 400×350 m) which is rising up to the sky. What remained from this holy place is the lifeless shell.
How intense and deep disappointment for me. Such a feeling of sadness I didn’t have for awhile. My throat soured.
What can I do to give the Tibet back to the Tibetans?
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I never take medicines, aspirin or antibiotic. My arrival to Tibet was different. I remembered the experience in Peru, the stay in Cusco, the capital of the Inca, where on 3400 meters I’ve had headaches, heaviness and slow motion until I didn’t get accustomed three days later. In Bolivia on 4100 meters was even worst. During the night, in a stone Sheppard lodge, it was impossible to fall asleep. I was waking up every ten minutes. I was missing air. In the daytime, it was all right, but it was the night which destroys.
Therefore, I didn’t make the same mistake here. At the airport, I bought the herbal pills for the mountain headaches, and instantly I take three as the recommended dose. We arrive at the hotel and Tsenko gives me the oxygen pills, to raise the blood transport capacity of the oxygen. Also, he hands me the bottle with a liquid, based on honey and 40 medicinal herbs. The concentrate is made in the ratio of the golden cut. I take the first spoon.
Tsenko is Vera’s husband and the airplane pilot from Bulgaria. They’ve organized my presentation in Varna, on the Black Sea’s Coast, a month ago. This is his second Kora. The first one he did with Vera twelve years ago and after that, they got married. Tsenko is very spiritual. He tells me that in the foothill of the Rila Mountain in Bulgaria there is the legendary Agartha, the civilization old millions of years.
The third member of the closest crew is also Bulgarian, the medicine doctor Borislav. This is his first time on Kora. They been around the world, climbed the sacred mountains of Peru, Bolivia, Columbia and went to other locations in Europe and Asia. They arrived after three months of fitness preparations. Boris, I’ve met on the first weekend in March. He was visiting the Bosnian Pyramids. These fifty years old men appreciate a lot our work in Visoko.
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Eight days before the arrival in China, I spoke to a friend Valery Uvarov, the pyramid builder from Russia. I told him about my trip to Tibet to perform the Kora. He raised his eyebrows and said:
“Ok, physically you could do it. But, are you aware that Kailash distorts the time and space by the energy reflector on its east side. A lot of people never returned from Kora. Are you really ready for this?”
Valeri and I have visited together the Koh Ker pyramid in Cambodia and later went to the Philippines to an international conference. Upon my departure, he brought me a gift. Shoe insole. The right one has copper plates and the other zinc. More expensive version uses the silver and gold. Valery developed this product to allow better circulation and balancing of the energies inside the organism. It’s based on the Horus Wand principle, iron rounded bars carried by the Pharaohs of the Ancient Egypt.
On the first day, I wore the new waterproof hiking boots the Valeri’s insole were the first thing to put in them.
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The Mythical Shambala, from the time before the time, is located according to certain explorers, deep under Kailash. This is one of the reasons why it is forbidden to climb this mountain and conquer its highest peak at 6714 meters of altitude.
The first Kora, which is performed around Kailash clears away the sins. We become mentally clean.
The thirteenth Kora allows us to make interior Kora and acquire the spiritual cleanliness.
The hundred and thirteenth Kora allows us to reach the state of Buddha’s bliss. Our figure appears on the hill slopes of the sacred mountain.
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We went for a dinner to Llasa. The most experienced member of the crew of six is Russian, Sergei. In the past twelve years, he comes two to three times a year to Kailash. I asked him about the motivation.
“Every year there is another motive. This time its search for the Shan Shu civilization, millions of years of age”.
I’ve turned to our young guide.
“What was your name again?”
“Tensin and I’m a pure-blooded Tibetan”.
“How old are you?”
“Twenty-eight”.
“Where did you learn English so well?”
“In India. I spent eight years there and learnt Hindu, English, Nepalese, Manchurian and Mandarin.”
“All right, and I’ll ask more while we walk around Kailash”, I said.
“During our hike around Kailash you will keep your breath and strength”, Wolfgang added.
We went to the Hotel and three of us wake up early, departing for the airport is at 5 AM.
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It is same as if diving deep and then decide to go to out to the surface, the organism wants to breathe but you can’t, you’re in the water. The surface doesn’t come. And finally, when you dive out the lungs want to burst.
Exactly the same feeling, just before diving out, woke me up in the middle of the night in my hotel room in Llasa. I knew right away that my body didn’t have oxygen. The first pill stopped working. In the dark room, I kept my eyes closed, with discontinuous breathing. Two, three inhales and then the shorter ones. I’m trying to fall asleep, but it’s creating short breaths and lack of oxygen. I was again woken by the pressure in my lungs. This state lasted for an hour, maybe two.
It seemed I had one hour of sleep before the alarm clock rang.
We started from the Eastern Tibet toward the west. Wolfgang, Sergei and Petar were gone for the three-day travel with SUV’s during which they will acclimatize. We’ve skipped the larger part of Tibet and follow the different program in next two days. We’ll meet in Darchen city and head for Kora on the first day.
It’s still dark in Llasa. Illuminated buildings, wide boulevards, Chinese flags, the city still sleeping, there’s no traffic.
Melancholy for some past times, when the Buddhist temples and their traditions were the bridge to the knowledge of the previous civilizations.
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