November 22nd, 2012 | by snowlion | published in Amdo Tibet
The traditional Tibetan region of Amdo, is located on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau. Though most of Amdo lies in modern day Qinghai province, large regions also are located in southwestern Gansu and northern Sichuan provinces. Roughly 1.6 million Tibetans live in Amdo which accounts for over 25% of the total Tibetan population. [...]
November 22nd, 2012 | by snowlion | published in Amdo Tibet
Xining City Xining is located in the eastern part of Qinghai Province and lies on the upper Tsongchu River (Huangshui River). An important attributory of Yellow River. It is formerly part of Tibet’s Amdo province, and a little over one million Tibetans inhabit Qinghai’s minority Tibetan prefectures of Haibei,Hainan,huangnan,Golog, Yushu and Haixi. Now Xining is [...]
November 22nd, 2012 | by snowlion | published in Amdo Tibet
Kumbum Monastery / Ta’er si སྐུ་འབུམ Kumbum Monastery (Ch Ta’er si) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, is famous for being the birthplace of the great religious reformer Tsongkhapa. It is a wonderful place to check out Tibetan religious culture, Tibetan architecture, and Tibetan art. Highlights at [...]
November 21st, 2012 | by snowlion | published in Amdo Tibet
Tsongongpo/Qinghai Lake/Kokonor Lake Qinghai Lake (Tib Tsongongpo, Mogol Lake Kokonor ) is at an elevation of 3200m. The Qinghai Province named after the lake. It is the largest lake in all of China and largest salt lake in Asia. Qinghai Lake is regarded as holy by Tibetans and Mongolians and this is also the sea [...]
June 23rd, 2012 | by snowlion | published in Amdo Tibet
Golok/Golog/Guoluo མགོ་ལོག Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture/ མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ: is located in Southeastern of Qinghai Province and Eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau. As it is located in the upper reach of Yellow River, also known as the Source of Yelllow river. Golok is one of the biggest Tibetan Population in Qinghai Province, 90% of population are Tibetan [...]
June 23rd, 2012 | by snowlion | published in Amdo Tibet
Rebkong/Tongren རེབ་གོང Rebkong(Tib: རེབ་གོང/reb gong/Repkong/ cn: Tongren), is located in the Golden Valley of the Rongwu Guchu River in Malho (rma lho, Huangnan) prefecture southeast of Qinghai province, The valley is at about 2600m(8500 feet) above sea-level, extends from the north to south, and is surrounded by several mountains. Rebkong is also famous for it’s [...]
June 23rd, 2012 | by snowlion | published in Amdo Tibet
Labrang Xiahe བླ་བྲང Labrang(Chi: Xiahe) town is sprawls along the banks of Shangchu River(see above picture). It’s an one street town and is predominantly Hui Muslims at the east side of the town and Tibetans at the west end. Labrang Monastery which is one of the Six great Monasteries in Tibet, lays [...]