Mount Meru Speaks Perhaps many readers, having never been exposed to religions like Hinduism and Buddhism, are not familiar with Mount Meru nor its spiritual relationship to Mount Kailash, an existing mountain in Tibet. The believers in religions of India and countries in the area plan lifetime treks to even view the mountain from the distant valleys. There are numerous tour companies eager to collect substantial fees for guiding a trekker to view at a substantial distance. The Chinese have restricted climbing the mountain. The image below is a frequent view used by most people introducing a discussion on Mt. Kailash. It is not a particularly high mountain at 21,166 feet compared to Mt. Everest at just under 30,000 feet. Kailash ritual documentation of Mt. Kailash has physical features, making it quite memorable. A discussion of those features is readily available online and most easily on Wikipedia and not repeated in this highly specialized analysis. As is my habit in the...