Drotsang Gon is a Geluk monastery in Tsongkha, Amdo, currently located in Ledu town or Drotsang in Tibetan. It was founded in 1392 by Samlo Lama Sanggye Tashi under his patron, the Ming Hongwu Emperor. It was built on the site of a Karma Kagyu monastery. It is famous for …
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Ngawa Kirti monastery is also known as Kirti Kalari Gon Tashi Lhundrub, is a Gelugpa monastery on the northwestern edge of Ngawa City, the main city in Ngawa County, within the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan plateau at an …
Read More »Gonlung Monastery /Youningsi དགོན་ལུང་དགོན་པ།
Gonlung Jampa Ling is an important Geluk monastery in Amdo that was founded in 1604 by Gelse Donyo Chokyi Gyatso. The site was visited by the Third Dalai Lama and Fourth Dalai Lama prior to its founding. Regarded as one of the four great monasteries of the north, it is …
Read More »Jiuzhaigou / Dzitsa Degu གཟི་ཚ་སྡེ་དགུ།
Jiuzhaigou is a national reserve of natural beauty with spectacular jagged alpine mountains rising above cedar forest around a picturesque landscape of crystal clear, various coloured ponds, lakes, waterfalls, caves and other beautiful features. Jiuzhaigou means Nine Settlement Valleys and its from Tibetan name Dzitsa Degu. The nine settlements are …
Read More »Mt Kulha /Siguniang སྐུ་བླ།
Mt Gulha is located in the bordering area of Rilong Town, Tsenlha County and Namphel County in Ngawa Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. In Chinese, the name of this mountain has been translated as ‘Four Girls Mountain’, ‘Four Sisters Mountain’ or ‘Four maiden’s Mountain’. Which probably a wrong translation of …
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