Katarina Weslien: Walking Kailash

In a remote region of western Tibet, on the pilgrimage route which circles the sacred mountain of Kailash, lies the emerald freshwater Lake of Compassion. In 2004, Tibetan scholar Tenzin Bob Thurman of Tibet House US led a small group on this pilgrimage, one which Hindus and Buddhists believe will erase a lifetime of misdeeds, and bring spiritual freedom.

Katarina Weslien’s circumambulation of the mountain, and the water she collected from the lake, became the source for an invitational project. She asked twenty artists to make a walk of compassion, wherever they found themselves in the world. This book contains the documentation, art work, research, thinking, reflections, and writing from those walks.