-
Yatung or Yadong, also
known as
Shasima (Tibetan: ཤར་གསིང་མ་, Wylie: shar
gsing ma, THL: sharsingma,
simplified Chinese: 下司马镇;
traditional Chinese: 下司馬鎮;...
- Old
Yatung (Chinese: 老亚东; pinyin: Lǎo Yàdōng),
originally just "
Yatung", with a
native Tibetan spelling of
Nyatong or Myatong, is a
location 2
miles west...
- town of
Yatung. The
joint river is
known in
English by its
Bhutanese name Amo Chu. (Tibetans
continue to call it
Khambu Machu.) The town of
Yatung (also...
- main
Chumbi valley, on the west bank of the Amo Chu river. A
stream called Yatung Chu that
brings waters from the
Jelep La and
Nathu La p****es on the Sikkim...
- 1890 and
Younghusband expedition, the
British established trading posts at
Yatung and Lhasa,
along with
military detachments to
protect them.
These trade...
- A
young Englishman,
member of the
Secret Intelligence Service, in
Yatung, Tibet,
photographed by
Ernst Schäfer in 1939...
- east of Gangtok, the
capital of Sikkim, and 35
kilometres (22 mi) from
Yatung Shasima, the
headquarters of the
Yadong County (or the
Chumbi Valley). Nathu...
- Lukhangwa, a
senior lay official, by the
Dalai Lama
before he left for
Yatung in the
Chumbi Valley in
December 1950
following the
Chinese invasion of...
-
Chumbi Valley until the
Chinese take-over of
Tibet in 1950,
after which Yatung became its headquarters.
Chumbi is also ****ociated with the Sikkim's royal...
-
established autonomy for the
Limbu subbas.
Phuntsog moved his
capital from
Yatung to
Yuksam and
instituted the
first centralised administration. The kingdom...
