________________
Chapter 02
Three Field Trip Reports
guidance of Jain Center of America, New York to locate the same. Author was part of Ashtapad Research Group during May- June 2006 and June-July 2007 field trips to Kailash area. According to Dr. Rajnikant Shah's report with reference to first field trip one can see that all the travel agents talk and take you to different places for Ashtapad. A traveler-out of hardship of local conditions of three days of Kailash parikrama- believes what he is told. Just out of desire and wish to visit Ashtapad, he visits the places wherever travel agents take him, but one should not take for granted that the place is Ashtapad. During our first and second field trips few of us visited hillock near Darpoche, region around Serlung Gompa and Gyangdrag monastery, 13 Drigung-Kagyu Chorten and Nandi Parvat. Photographs were also taken. From the information gathered, it is believed that there could be nine places where a possibility of Ashtapad could be there. Last tenth one was detected and established by the author. Probable locations of Ashtapad Mountain and Ashtapad Maha Tirth are as under:
Za
Plain of Bark h a
Fig.2: Map showing probable sites of Ashtapad Mountain & Ashtapad Maha Tirth including the site detected using satellite data by the author.
75
- Field Trip I & II to locate site for...
