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The monsoon which sustains this lush and fertile valley owes its very existence to the Tibetan plateau. Like a giant hotplate, the plateau heats up in the spring and summer.
多虧了高原的存在，才有了為綠色富饒峽谷帶來活力的季風。高原像一個巨大的加熱板，春溫夏暖。
The change in air pressure draws in warm moist air from the Indian Ocean in the south. Thanks to this, over a billion people from India to Burma benefit fromthe monsoon rain that this wind brings with it.
氣壓的變化引來了南面印度洋的溫熱潮濕的空氣，幸虧這樣，從印度到緬甸的十億多人，都得益于季風帶來的季風雨。
Tibet is the engine that drives the fertility of a whole subcontinent. But Tibet has an even greater role in the ecology of the region.
西藏就是保持整個次大陸肥沃的動力。但是西藏在地區(qū)生態(tài)方面扮演著更重要的角色。
Clues to this function are found in a legend that pre-dates even the ancient Tibetan culture and which still draws pilgrims from all over the world.
這個角色的線索可以追溯到古藏文化的傳說當中，而這個傳說至今還吸引著來自全世界的朝圣者。
Several world religions believe in a mythical mountain that's equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
世界上一些的宗教相信一座神話中的山是伊甸園般的存在。
Its peak has four faces, aligned to the points of the compass, and from its summit four rivers are said to flow to the four quarters of the world.
它的頂部有四個面，排成羅盤的四個方向，從它的頂部有四條河流向世界的的四方。
Thanks to its life-giving waters, this mountain is known as the "axis of the world ". In one of the remotest areas of Tibet, there's a place where this legend takes physical form. That place is Mount Kailash.
由于這里的生命之泉，這座山被稱為“世界屋脊”。在西藏最偏僻的區(qū)域之一，有一個地方應驗了這個傳說。這就是伽拉薩山。
