China Builds Missile Site at Kailash-Mansarovar

admin September 1, 2020 Daily Current Affairs

Amid tensions with India over the standoff in Eastern Ladakh sector, China has reportedly built a surface-to-air missile near a lake, which is a part of the Kailash-Mansarovar.
Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar, commonly known as the Kailash-Mansarovar site is revered by four religions and is linked to culture and spiritual scriptures in India.
While the Hindus consider the site as the abode of Shiva and his consort Parvati,
The Tibetan Buddhists call the mountain Kang Rimpoche, the “Precious One of Glacial Snow,” and revere it as the abode of Demchog and his consort, Dorje Phagmo.
The Jains call the mountain Astapada and consider it to be the place where the first of their 24 spiritual masters achieved liberation.
The Bons, adherents of the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet, term the mountain Tise and revere it the dwelling place of the sky goddess, Sipaimen.
The placing of the missile at the sacred site, which is also the origin of four transnational rivers —
- Indus, Brahmaputra, Sutlej and Karnali, a major tributary of the Ganges, menaces India, which has refused to back down against Chinese aggression on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).