Mati Temple is located 65 km south of Zhangye city, in the Sunan Yugu (Tibetan) Autonomous Prefecture. Temples and grottoes are carved into the side of a cliff in several zones spread over several kilometres. Several of these can be visited and climbed through, in some cases through tight vertical …

Bingling Temple or Jampa Bumling is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir. The site is in Yongjing County of Linxia Hui …

Amnye Machen (also spelled Amne Machin, A’nyê Maqên, or A’nyê Machin) is one of the most sacred mountains in Tibetan Buddhism, revered particularly by the Amdo Tibetans. Located in the Qinghai Province of China, it is part of the Kunlun Mountain Range and has a deep religious, cultural, and geographical …

Upper Wutunsi(Ch) is called Sanggeshung Yago Palden Choejor ling monastery in Tibetan and a Geluk monastery in the Rebkong region of Amdo, the monastery originally built by Rangan Lobsang Dargye in 1650. The head Lamas of this monastery are Drakar Ngakrinpa and Bipa Tsang. Currently there are 270 monks living in the monastery and three …

Lower Wutunsi(Ch) is called Sanggeshung Mago Ganden Phuntsok ling monastery in Tibetan and it is located about 7km from the famous Rongwo monastery of Rebkong. The village where the monastery located also called Sanggeshung Mago. Originally it was a small temple in which the local people worship few statues of …