| 摘要 | Chapters: Tongkor Monastery, Derge Parkhang, Palpung Monastery, Dzongsar Monastery, Dzogchen Monastery, Gongchen Monastery, Kandze Monastery, Khangmar Monastery, Kirti Monastery, Nanwu si Monastery. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Part of a series on Tongkor Monastery, Tongkor Gonpa, Ganden Chokhorling, or Dangar Gompa (Chinese: Donggu) is in Zithang township, Tongkor County = Kardze (Ch. Ganzi) county, Sichuan, not far to the east of Lake Koko Nor (Ch. Qinghai). It about 30 km southwest of Tongkor Town (Ch. Huangyuan) which is itself about equidistant between Dabzhi (Ch. Haiyan) to the northwest, and about 40 kilometres from Ziling (Ch. Xining) City, the provincial capital in the southeast. It is 8 km northeast of the Nyima Dawa La or 'Sun and Moon Pass,' 3,399 metre (11,152 ft), over which the ancient trade route (now Route 214) from Ziling/Xining crossed south to Lhasa. The American adventurer and diplomat, W. W. Rockhill, refers to the town as Tankar (Tan-ka-erh), but adds this note: "Huc calls it Tang-keou-eul and Prjevalsky calls it Tonkir or Donkir. Tibetans and Mongols name it Dung kor or Tung kor. The name is not Chinese: it may be t'ang mk'ar "fort (commanding) the steppe," if it is a Tibetan name, of which I am not sure." Rockhill reports that late in the 19th century there was a massacre of nearly 10,000 Muslims around the town of "Tankar", but there were still "not more" than 10,000 Chinese and Tibetans in the town; with a "nominal force of 200 men under a colonel". Muslims were no longer allowed entry. The town was walled and was an important trade centre. The journey from Tongkor to Lhasa was usually sixty to seventy days. Rockhill mentions that its importance as a trade centre had diminished since the recent war. Items brought from ...http://booksllc.net/?id=25130378 |
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