page_title: Lake Manasarovar
section_title: Religious significance
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Manasarovar / Religious significance
caption_attribution_description: English: View from Chiu Gompa Monastery to Manasarovar Lake Deutsch: Blick vom Chiu Kloster zum Manasarovar See
context_page_description: Lake Manasarovar or Manas Sarovar, also called Mapam Yumtso Tibetan: མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།, Wylie: ma pham g.yu mtsho;; is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The lake is revered as a sacred place in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.
caption: View from Chiu Gompa Monastery
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