2018

Shechen Monastery (Tibetan: ཞེ་ཆེན་བསྟན་གཉིས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང, Wylie: zhe chen bstan gnyis dar rgyas gling德格县协庆寺) is one of the six primary or “mother” monasteries of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It was originally located in Tibet but was...

Dzogchen Monastery (Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན་དགོན། rdzogs chen dgon德格县佐钦寺，又名“竹庆寺”) is one of the six great monasteries of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in Kham within modern day Dêgê County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. History Dzogchen Monastery was founded...

Muri La is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 4.569m (14,990ft) above the sea level, located in northwestern Sichuan, in China. The road to the summit, also...

Rongme Ngatra is the highest peak of the Chola Mountains in the Kham region of western Sichuan, China. The peak’s name in Mandarin Chinese is Que Er Shan or  Chola Mountains (Chinese: 雀儿山; pinyin: Què’ér Shān) also the same name as the entire range,...

The Chola Mountains,雀儿山 also romanized as the Trola Mountains, are a northern subrange of the Shaluli Mountains in western Sichuan Province，China. The mountains were once at the centre of the Kingdom of Derge and many remnant Tibetan...

Cho La, also transliterated as Tro La, is a mountain pass across the Chola Mountains in Dege County, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan, China. In Mandarin Chinese, it is known as Qu’er Pass (Chinese: 雀儿山口; pinyin: Què’ér Shānkǒu). The pass reaches a height of...

玉隆拉措（又名“新路海）Yihun Lhatso Lake in Dege County, Garze Yihun Lhatso (Chinese: 新路海; pinyin: Xīnlù Hǎi), also transliterated from Tibetan as Yilung Latsho, is a glacial lake in the Tibetan area of western Sichuan Province, China. Geography Yihun Lhatso rests in a valley on...

德格印经院Derge Parkhang in Dege County, Garze The Derge Parkhang, (pronunciation “Dehr-geh”, alternative names Dege Parkhang, Derge Sutra Printing Temple, Dege Yinjing Yuan, Derge Barkhang, Dege Barkhang, Barkhang, Parkhang, Bakong Scripture Printing...

德格县八邦寺Pelpung Gompa or Pelpung Monastery Pelpung Monastery, the seat of the Tai Situpa and Jamgon Kongtrul, is located in Kham near Derge, which originated in the 12th century and wielded...

Palyul Monastery (Tibetan: དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཆོས་གླིང་།, Wylie: dpal yul rnam rgyal byang chub chos gling), also known as Palyul Namgyal Jangchub Choling Monastery and sometimes romanized as Pelyul Monastery, is one of the six mother monasteries of the Nyingma tradition...