{"id":9135,"date":"2010-06-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/06\/kailash-mansarovar-pilgrimage-to-tibet-begins\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T12:00:00","slug":"kailash-mansarovar-pilgrimage-to-tibet-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/06\/kailash-mansarovar-pilgrimage-to-tibet-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Kailash-Mansarovar Pilgrimage to Tibet Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/kailash-mansarovar-pilgrimage-to-tibet-begins-news-national-kgboudcbdcj.html\">sify.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, June 5, 2010: The first batch of Hindu devotees left New Delhi on Tuesday for the annual Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage. The batch of pilgrims comprised of 50 devotees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to our holy books, pilgrimage of Kailash-Mansarovar is one of the major pilgrimages of the Hindus. It is an effort to the end the cycle of life and death,&#8221; said Bharat Pathak, a pilgrim.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangements for the pilgrims have been improved this year, with more variety of food and extra accommodation facilities. &#8220;We are taking care of all the facilities like food and accommodation for the pilgrims so that they don&#8217;t face any inconveniences. This year we have increased the arrangements by adding two more huts and 16 more beds. We have also arranged for South Indian dishes for the pilgrims&#8217; taste buds,&#8221; said Surinder Singh Jeena, President, Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have even introduced food and beverages of Uttarakhand to make the pilgrims familiar with the state&#8217;s culture. We are trying our best so that the pilgrims don&#8217;t face any problems on their way,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The pilgrimage route is prone to hazards like earthquakes and landslides. In 1998 about 300 people died due to landslides in Malpa region of the Garhwal Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Hindus from India used to undertake the pilgrimage until it was halted in 1962 when India and China fought a war. The pilgrimage was resumed in 1981 after relations between the two countries improved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: sify.com INDIA, June 5, 2010: The first batch of Hindu devotees left New Delhi on Tuesday for the annual,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}