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Gyantse,
officially Gyangzê Town (also
spelled Gyangtse; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ, Wylie:
rgyal rtse, ZYPY: Gyangzê;
simplified Chinese: 江孜镇;
traditional Chinese:...
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Monastery or
Shekar Gyantse[citation needed] is the main
monastery in the
Nyangchu river valley in
Gyantse,
Gyantse County,
Shigatse Prefecture...
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Gyantse Dzong or
Gyantse Fortress is one of the best
preserved dzongs in Tibet,
perched high
above the town of
Gyantse on a huge spur of grey
brown rock...
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British political officer noted. The
expeditionary force fought its way to
Gyantse and
eventually reached Lhasa, the
capital of Tibet, in
August 1904. The...
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Gyantse County officially Gyangzê
County (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 江孜县) is a
county of Xigazê in the
Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its main...
- Monastery. The
first Kumbum was
founded in the fire
sheep year 1427 by a
Gyantse prince. It has nine
lhakangs or levels, is 35
metres (115 ft) high surmounted...
- Valley, then from
Gyantse to
Lhasa and from
there via
Samye across the
Yarlung Valley to
Shigatse and back
again to
Gangtok via
Gyantse. In
Lhasa itself...
- Aris, 1982), ie cloth-image
tower support. At
Palcho ****
monastery in
Gyantse, the
thangka wall is
called gheku tower (Victor Chan, 1994), ie cloth-image...
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under the
early Dalai Lamas, and
Tsang (Wylie: gtsang)
which extended from
Gyantse to
points west,
controlled by the
rival Sakya lineage.
Military victories...
- seat of the
Panchen Lama. Some of the
towns in the
prefecture are:
Gyantse (
Gyantse County),
Tingri (Tingri County), and
Nyalam (Nyalam County). On 11...
