The famous Iayuguan Pass or Jiayuguan Fortress is the west start point of China’s Great Wall. At the base of Jiayu Mountain Situates the legendary Jiayuguan Pass known as the most strategic point along the ancient Silk Road. The whole fortress was built in the year 1372 during the Ming Dynasty and …

The Mogao Caves, also well known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes, the biggest, best-preserved, and most significant site of Buddhist statuary and frescoes in all of China are all here, which is located 25km southeast of Dunhuang. There are 735 caves in Mogao, and the caves in Mogao are particularly …

In the 14th century Yeshe Gyaltsen, a Bonpo monk from Yaru bensa kha Monastery and originally from Sog de in Nagchu kha, asked his main master, mTha’ bral bSod nams rgyal mtshan, about his future. His master told him that he was to spread the doctrine in a land called …

Shardzong Hermitage or Shardzong Ritro is a Geluk hermitage located in the Tsongkha region of Amdo and situated on a slope of Amnye Chi Ri, is one of four major meditation sites in Amdo. It was founded by the 4th Karmapa (1340–1383) at the beginning of the 14th century. It …

Ngawa Tashi Gomang monastery, a branch of Labrang Monastery, is Geluk monastery in Amdo that was founded in either 1776 or 1791 by the Second Jamyang Zhepa, Konchok Jigme Wangpo. As of 1996, it housed over 600 monks, of which eleven were incarnate lamas. Beginning in 1769, at the age …