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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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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 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
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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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Lamas had
built monasteries, and
Tsang (Wylie: gtsang)
which extended from
Gyantse to
points west,
where the
Sakya lineage had its monasteries. The military...
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Great Stupa of
Gyantse which is 600
years old. When completed, the stupa's
exterior will be an
exact replica of the
Great Stupa of
Gyantse. It will be 50...
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Around 90 km (56 mi) to the west of the lake lies the
Tibetan town of
Gyantse and
Lhasa is 100 km (62 mi) to the northeast.
According to
local mythology...
