Lake Manasarovar

Lake Manasarovar or Lake Manasa Sarovar (Tibetan: [མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Mapham Yutso; simplified Chinese: 玛旁雍错code: zh is deprecated ; traditional Chinese: 瑪旁雍錯code: zh is deprecated ) is a fresh-water lake. It is in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, 2,000 kilometres (1,242.7 mi) from Lhasa. Lake Manasarovar is the source of the Pakistani river Sindhu. Sindhu flows west to the Arabian Sea.

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The source of the river Indus in China and Tibetan Himalayas

Lake Manasarovar Media

• Mt Kailash sat.jpg

  Topography of the region showing Manasarovar (right) and Rakshastal lakes with Mount Kailash

• Mansarovar map.jpg

  Map of the Manasarovar region

• Manasarowar-See Dieter Schuh.JPG

  A pilgrim taking a dip in the lake

• View of the lake from Chiu Gompa Monastery

• Lake Manasarovar, Tibet map in French and Persian detail from 1784 Tiefenthaler Map of the Ganges and Ghaghara Rivers, India (cropped).jpg

  An 18th-century map of lake Manasarovar by Joseph Tiefenthaler

• Gurla Mandhata & Manasarovar.jpg

  Lake Manasarovar with Gurla Mandhata

• Manasarovar with small temples.jpg

  Temples and stupa on the lake shore

• Buddhist Prayer flags on the shore